Egypt
Canberra Times (Samantha Meys)
Youm7 (Amany Saber)
- Australia Returns 122 Items To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) After a decade of lying hidden in storehouses at auction halls in Melbourne, Australia, a collection of 122 ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts is to return to Egypt on 5 November. An archaeological mission led by...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Unaffordable For Australia
Sydney Morning Herald (Catharine Munro and Jason Koutsoukis) A BLOCKBUSTER exhibition of King Tutankhamun will not tour Australia because museums cannot afford it. Egypt wants to send the world's most successful tour of artefacts from the tomb of...
- Details Re The Smuggling And Australian Recovery Of Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/9f4ww This article contains more details not only about the artefacts themselves, but about how they were recovered and who smuggled them originally: "The artefacts will be used in the case against 10 Egyptians, including three top...
- Update On Items Returned By Australia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200725g.htm A second statement from Egypt's State Information Service"An Egyptian delegation, currently visiting Australia, received seven valuable monuments. Egyptian authorities had contacted their Australian...
- Australia Returns Artifacts To Egypt
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4EDD1A48-4AD7-4223-A5AF-6DC06A6E6B19.htm "Australia has handed over to the Egyptian authorities several 2500-year-old antiquities at the centre of a smuggling racket. Police recovered the tomb artefacts as part of...
Egypt
Australia will return 122 Egyptian archeological pieces
Canberra Times (Samantha Meys)
A hoard of stolen ancient Egyptian artefacts were yesterday returned to Egypt after a whirlwind few months of travel.
Office for the Arts representative Sally Basser handed the 122 artefacts to ambassador Omar Metwally in Canberra on behalf of Arts Minister Simon Crean.
Australian authorities originally seized the items in Melbourne at an auction house in November.
The ancient artefacts had been smuggled from Egypt to Australia.
Secretary to the ambassador, Ahmed Abu Moussa, said they were notified of the objects' location in Australia thanks to the internet.
Both the Egyptian and Australian governments have worked together to ensure the items were safely returned to Egypt, where they would be tested and verified by Egyptian authorities.
Youm7 (Amany Saber)
The Egyptian ambassador in Australia, Omar Metwali, received 122 archeological pieces from Australian authorities. The pieces were retrieved from an auction house in Melbourne in November 2010.
The Egyptian embassy in Australia issued a statement announcing the Australian authorities caught these pieces after the Egyptian embassy presented an official request to retrieve them.
The archeological pieces date back to the Pharaonic, Greek and Roman eras.
- Australia Returns 122 Items To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) After a decade of lying hidden in storehouses at auction halls in Melbourne, Australia, a collection of 122 ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman artefacts is to return to Egypt on 5 November. An archaeological mission led by...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Unaffordable For Australia
Sydney Morning Herald (Catharine Munro and Jason Koutsoukis) A BLOCKBUSTER exhibition of King Tutankhamun will not tour Australia because museums cannot afford it. Egypt wants to send the world's most successful tour of artefacts from the tomb of...
- Details Re The Smuggling And Australian Recovery Of Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/9f4ww This article contains more details not only about the artefacts themselves, but about how they were recovered and who smuggled them originally: "The artefacts will be used in the case against 10 Egyptians, including three top...
- Update On Items Returned By Australia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200725g.htm A second statement from Egypt's State Information Service"An Egyptian delegation, currently visiting Australia, received seven valuable monuments. Egyptian authorities had contacted their Australian...
- Australia Returns Artifacts To Egypt
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4EDD1A48-4AD7-4223-A5AF-6DC06A6E6B19.htm "Australia has handed over to the Egyptian authorities several 2500-year-old antiquities at the centre of a smuggling racket. Police recovered the tomb artefacts as part of...