Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With 2 photos.
- Nine Limestone Reliefs Are Back Home From Spain
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The stolen artefacts were missing for over a decade until they turned up in Barcelona After a thirteen year absence, nine ancient Egyptian limestone reliefs were returned to their original place in the Saqqara...
- Suez National Museum To Be Opened
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass will officially inaugurate the Suez National Museum this Thursday. Built over three years with a budget of LE 42 million, the museum...
- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Mexican President Inaugurates Egyptian Antiques Exhibition
Egypt State Information Service Mexican President Felipe Calderon inaugurated Saturday 22/9/2007 an exhibition of Egyptian antiques, the first in Latin America, with senior officials taking part. Ali Hossam Eddin El-Hefni, the Egyptian Ambassador...
- Mexico Hosts 1st Egyptian Monument Exihibition
http://tinyurl.com/knzod (State Information Service) "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni and his Mexican counterpart Sari Bermudez met Monday April 17th. The meeting was attending by Bermudez's high–rank accompanying delegation. Bermudez invited Egypt...
Egypt
Egypt restores archaeological piece from Mexico
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With 2 photos.
Egypt State Information ServiceAfter three years in the custody of the Mexican government for investigation, Egypt receives a 17x15cm-wide New Kingdom relief that had been smuggled out of the country illegally. The story of the relief began in 2006 when Mexican police caught a Mexican citizen in possession of the relief red-handed. An investigation proved the piece was Egyptian property.
The Foreign Ministry restored Monday an archeological piece from Mexico that was seized at the Mexican customs department five years ago.
The Assistant Foreign Minister for international cultural affairs, Sherif el-Kholy said, since then, Egypt has been exerting strenuous efforts to restore the piece and the Egyptian embassy filed a request to get the piece back.
El-Kholy said the piece, dating back to the Modern Dynasty, is a rock slab with an inscribed drawing of a man's head with a wig.
He stressed that more smuggled pieces from several foreign countries would be restored.
- Nine Limestone Reliefs Are Back Home From Spain
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The stolen artefacts were missing for over a decade until they turned up in Barcelona After a thirteen year absence, nine ancient Egyptian limestone reliefs were returned to their original place in the Saqqara...
- Suez National Museum To Be Opened
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass will officially inaugurate the Suez National Museum this Thursday. Built over three years with a budget of LE 42 million, the museum...
- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Mexican President Inaugurates Egyptian Antiques Exhibition
Egypt State Information Service Mexican President Felipe Calderon inaugurated Saturday 22/9/2007 an exhibition of Egyptian antiques, the first in Latin America, with senior officials taking part. Ali Hossam Eddin El-Hefni, the Egyptian Ambassador...
- Mexico Hosts 1st Egyptian Monument Exihibition
http://tinyurl.com/knzod (State Information Service) "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni and his Mexican counterpart Sari Bermudez met Monday April 17th. The meeting was attending by Bermudez's high–rank accompanying delegation. Bermudez invited Egypt...