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Egypt gets back stolen antiquities from Spain
Egypt State Information Services
The Supreme Council of Antiquities has left no stone unturned to retrieve three stolen items from Spain as an SCA delegation will finally leave for Barcelona tomorrow to have them back.
Dating back to the New Kingdom, the pieces - a basalt statue of an unknown man, a fragmentary granite statue of an Egyptian noble man and part of a color-decorated wall of the tomb of Ken-Amun - had been smuggled out of Egypt, said SCA Secretary General Zahi Hawwas.
They have been on display at the Museu Egipci de Barcelona, before the SCA learned about them in 2004. The council then sent a committee to examine the looted pieces, confirming the SCA doubts; all three items are originals.
But the museum would not give them back and the SCA, having run out of all diplomatic means, launched legal action. It was only then that the museum gave in to the SCA demands.
The museum management pleaded with the council to supply it with imitations to showcase them in place of the three antiquities. Egypt has retrieved more than 5,200 stolen antiquities in recent years.
- Eight Artefacts Returned By Switzerland
Egypt State Information Service Egypt will receive on 26/6/2009 eight archaeological artifacts that were smuggled outside the country in 2002, said an expert in a released statement on Thursday 25/6/2009. The antiquities have been stolen from the storehouse...
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Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has decided to put recently restored stolen antiquities from the United States at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr Zahi Hawwas said that...
- Egypt To Restore 70 Artifacts From Uk
Egypt State Information Service Egypt will restore 70 ancient artifacts from Britain. The artifacts were on display at a British museum in London. They had been smuggled by a Briton out of Egypt. Dr Zahi Hawwas, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council...
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GMA News Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says it has retrieved from the Netherlands a small pharaonic funerary statue — over 3,000 years old and known as an ushebti — dating back to the 19th Dynasty. The Council says in a statement Monday...
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http://tinyurl.com/32tf92 (iht.com)"A Barcelona museum of Egyptian artifacts on Wednesday denied charges that one of its statues may have been stolen from Egypt, a dispute that has prompted the Cairo government to dispatch experts to examine the piece...