Egypt
- Egypt Smuggler Caught In Brussels, 80 Artefacts To Return Home
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Belgian court of appeal on Sunday ordered the return to Egypt of 80 artefacts stolen and smuggled out of the country. The artefacts were discovered in April 2010 when customs officials at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian...
- Australian Arrested For Smuggling In Egypt
SMH AN AUSTRALIAN antiques dealer has been arrested in Egypt for allegedly trying to smuggle two 2300-year-old animal mummies and religious figurines out of the country. It is believed Frank Bottaro, 61, who runs BC Galleries in Armadale, Melbourne, was...
- Sudan Arrests 12 Trying To Smuggle Mummies
Reuters Africa Sudanese authorities have arrested 12 people accused of smuggling ancient antiquities including two entire mummies, a state news agency said on Saturday. "The police authorities in Nile state have thwarted an attempt to smuggle ancient...
- 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...
- Egyptian Officials Charged With Smuggling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4670995,00.html This disturbing article concerns the theft of 57,000 artifacts from antiquity warehouses. The acused officials are thought to have been part of a gang that the government now accuses...
Egypt
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 archeologists, on trial for allegedly stealing and smuggling 57,000 artefacts from antiquity warehouses. They later smuggled thousands of them abroad. They were arrested in January 2003. Antiquities officials said Australian authorities were cooperative but that they are still seeking 11 other pieces that were put up for sale in Australia."
- Egypt Smuggler Caught In Brussels, 80 Artefacts To Return Home
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Belgian court of appeal on Sunday ordered the return to Egypt of 80 artefacts stolen and smuggled out of the country. The artefacts were discovered in April 2010 when customs officials at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian...
- Australian Arrested For Smuggling In Egypt
SMH AN AUSTRALIAN antiques dealer has been arrested in Egypt for allegedly trying to smuggle two 2300-year-old animal mummies and religious figurines out of the country. It is believed Frank Bottaro, 61, who runs BC Galleries in Armadale, Melbourne, was...
- Sudan Arrests 12 Trying To Smuggle Mummies
Reuters Africa Sudanese authorities have arrested 12 people accused of smuggling ancient antiquities including two entire mummies, a state news agency said on Saturday. "The police authorities in Nile state have thwarted an attempt to smuggle ancient...
- 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...
- Egyptian Officials Charged With Smuggling
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4670995,00.html This disturbing article concerns the theft of 57,000 artifacts from antiquity warehouses. The acused officials are thought to have been part of a gang that the government now accuses...