Egypt
- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Egypt Court Jails Officials Over Van Gogh Theft
Los Angeles Times An Egyptian court Thursday jailed five officials, including a former head of the state's fine arts department, over the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, state media said. "Vase with Viscaria" was stolen...
- Algeria To Protect Archaeological Heritage
http://tinyurl.com/29hbav (magharebia.com)Although this piece is focused on smuggling heritage items in Algeria, I have included it because this sort of trafficing is a problem shared by all nations with heritage worth trading, and this seems like a particularly...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- Thieves Strike The Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum
This is another sad article on a theft in Egypt. This time it is Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum which has been the victim of theft of two elaborately embroidered pieces of cloth that were hanging in the mausoleum. The Kiswa as they are known were behind thick...
Egypt
Brief details of items lost in theft
http://www.artandantiques.net/ArtCrimes.htm?CD=846&ID=2001
An apparently opportunist theft has resulted in the loss of several archaeological items: "An Egyptian Cippus of Horus, a black stone talisman depicting the god Horus standing on crocodiles, dated from the third century B.C., headlines the four stolen items". Some brief details, including a photograph of the above item, are available on the above URL.
- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Egypt Court Jails Officials Over Van Gogh Theft
Los Angeles Times An Egyptian court Thursday jailed five officials, including a former head of the state's fine arts department, over the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, state media said. "Vase with Viscaria" was stolen...
- Algeria To Protect Archaeological Heritage
http://tinyurl.com/29hbav (magharebia.com)Although this piece is focused on smuggling heritage items in Algeria, I have included it because this sort of trafficing is a problem shared by all nations with heritage worth trading, and this seems like a particularly...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- Thieves Strike The Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum
This is another sad article on a theft in Egypt. This time it is Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum which has been the victim of theft of two elaborately embroidered pieces of cloth that were hanging in the mausoleum. The Kiswa as they are known were behind thick...