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- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Nefertiti Dispute Continues
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It seems that there is no foreseeable resolution to the conflict over the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten. Last Monday the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) sent an...
- Official Repatriation Request For Bust Of Nefertiti
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Heritge Key reports that the SCA have announced that they have requested the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin. There's also some helpful background information in the article. The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced...
- A Generous Spirit
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/813/hr3.htmA personal account, by Zahi Hawass, of the outgoing German ambassador to Egypt, Martin Kobler, and his role mediating between the German and Egyptian authorities over heritage issues: "Kobler came to Egypt as...
- A Star Like Nefertiti
The head of Egypt's antiquities service, Dr. Zahi Hawass has once again called on the folks in Germany to hand over the bust of Nefertiti found at tell El Amarna in 1912. According to Dr. Hawass he has paperwork to prove the bust was illegally smuggled...
Egypt
Canada returning smuggled artefact to Egypt
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Today Egypt recovered a Greco-Roman bust from Canada. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the bust had been illegally smuggled out of Egypt but that the Canadian authorities were giving their full cooperation to repatriate the artifact. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the bust would be handed over to the Egyptian ambassador to Canada, Shamel Nasser, who will then send the bust back to its homeland of Egypt.
Hawass explained that the object is a 13 cm tall marble bust that has been stored at the Heritage Canada Foundation since Canadian Police confiscated it in 2007. Following several negotiations between Egypt and Canada, the bust is finally being returned. Ambassador Nasser said that the recovery of this bust highlights the strong friendship and cooperation between Egypt and Canada.
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Nefertiti Dispute Continues
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) It seems that there is no foreseeable resolution to the conflict over the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten. Last Monday the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) sent an...
- Official Repatriation Request For Bust Of Nefertiti
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Heritge Key reports that the SCA have announced that they have requested the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin. There's also some helpful background information in the article. The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced...
- A Generous Spirit
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/813/hr3.htmA personal account, by Zahi Hawass, of the outgoing German ambassador to Egypt, Martin Kobler, and his role mediating between the German and Egyptian authorities over heritage issues: "Kobler came to Egypt as...
- A Star Like Nefertiti
The head of Egypt's antiquities service, Dr. Zahi Hawass has once again called on the folks in Germany to hand over the bust of Nefertiti found at tell El Amarna in 1912. According to Dr. Hawass he has paperwork to prove the bust was illegally smuggled...