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- Ministry Of Antiquities Receives 80 Monuments From Belgium
Ahram Online (Nevine Al-Aref) With photos. The story started in April 2010 when Customs at Brussels Airport caught an Egyptian woman trying to smuggle 80 genuine objects concealed inside two large replica Egyptian statues. The objects were confiscated...
- More Re Foiling Of Smugglers
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The saga of the 80 objects began in April 2010 when the customs unit at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian woman red-handed as she tried to smuggle 80 small genuine objects. She had concealed them inside two large wooden...
- Belgian Mission Rediscover Tomb At Luxor
Reuters UK Belgian archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient Egyptian tomb that had been lost for decades under sand, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said on Sunday. In 1880 Swedish Egyptologist Karl Piehl uncovered the tomb of Amenhotep, the...
- Travel: Tourist Accident Near Abu Simbel
African Press Agency Six Belgian tourists were killed Friday and 29 injured when their bus overturned on the Aswan-Abu Simble road, about 40 kilos from the Famous tourist site of Abu simble, in Upper Egypt. Egyptian armed forces despatched a special plane...
- Damage To Whale Fossils
Yahoo European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday. "Whale Valley officials have informed the authorities...
Egypt
Belgian response re allegations of damage to fossil
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In Brussels, a government spokesman recognised that Belgian diplomats effectively drove in the classified site, without having left the road however, which rules out according to him, the possibility of destroying the whale fossil. Belgian diplomats immediately left the space as soon as they were informed that this was a protected site, the Belgian government spokesman explained.
- Ministry Of Antiquities Receives 80 Monuments From Belgium
Ahram Online (Nevine Al-Aref) With photos. The story started in April 2010 when Customs at Brussels Airport caught an Egyptian woman trying to smuggle 80 genuine objects concealed inside two large replica Egyptian statues. The objects were confiscated...
- More Re Foiling Of Smugglers
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The saga of the 80 objects began in April 2010 when the customs unit at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian woman red-handed as she tried to smuggle 80 small genuine objects. She had concealed them inside two large wooden...
- Belgian Mission Rediscover Tomb At Luxor
Reuters UK Belgian archaeologists have rediscovered an ancient Egyptian tomb that had been lost for decades under sand, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said on Sunday. In 1880 Swedish Egyptologist Karl Piehl uncovered the tomb of Amenhotep, the...
- Travel: Tourist Accident Near Abu Simbel
African Press Agency Six Belgian tourists were killed Friday and 29 injured when their bus overturned on the Aswan-Abu Simble road, about 40 kilos from the Famous tourist site of Abu simble, in Upper Egypt. Egyptian armed forces despatched a special plane...
- Damage To Whale Fossils
Yahoo European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday. "Whale Valley officials have informed the authorities...