Egypt
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall)
- The Mystery Of ‘the Starving Of Saqqara
Past Horizons Grotesque or beautiful? – Rare antiquity or outright fake? – For more than a decade Concordia University has investigated the origins of a mysterious sculpture. Once part of the Diniacopoulos Collection of Mediterranean antiquities,...
- Diplomat Caught Attempting To Smuggle Artefact - Which Was Actually A Fake
Asharq Alawsat (Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid) A diplomat was stopped recently by Cairo Airport authorities, who wanted to x-ray his luggage. The diplomat refused, but his objections were unsuccessful, and the Egyptian authorities insisted that all luggage must...
- Exhibition: More Re Unearthing The Truth - Egypt’s Pagan And Coptic Sculpture
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The exhibition, on view from February 13 to May 19, 2009, presents 30 Late Antique works (395-642 A.D.), many genuine, alongside reworked or repainted objects and a number of modern forgeries in an ambitious attempt to explain...
- Ancient Skulls Returned To Egypt
BBC News Two ancient Egyptian skulls which were found buried in a back garden in Manchester have been returned to Egypt. Matthew McClelland, 28, unearthed the skulls while digging at his home on Ivygreen Road, Chorlton, last June. The skulls were confiscated...
- Ssea - Searching For Ancient Egypt In Canada
http://sseamontrealvip.homestead.com/Project-EN.htmlUnder Dr. Brigitte Ouellet, President of the SSEA's (Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities) Quebec Chapter in Montreal work has begun to identify Egyptian artefacts in Canada's museums,...
Egypt
Egyptian Enigma: The Starving of Saqqara
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall)
Standing 67cm high, the limestone figures are intriguing and haunting, with their elongated skulls, their slack mouths, and their painfully thin limbs. Squatting naked opposite each other, one rests a hand on the arm of the other. Traces of red pigment hint at decoration; small streaks of green paint are probably a more recent, possibly accidental, addition. Graffiti, in a language as yet undeciphered, has been carved onto the base.
Fake or genuine antiquity? The jury is out. Now, the University of Concordia in Montreal, Canada, which acquired the sculpture in 1999 and where it has been on public display earlier this year, is determined to find out. Little is known of its origins other than that it was brought over to Canada to be included in an exhibition of Egyptian artefacts at the Galleria Ars Classica in Montreal by the Diniacopoulos family – collectors of antiquities in an era when trade in ancient treasures was casual and poorly monitored. As, however, the artefacts in this consignment were legally authorised for export, experts at the university believe the statue is a genuine antique and that it may have come from one of the tombs of Saqqara.
- The Mystery Of ‘the Starving Of Saqqara
Past Horizons Grotesque or beautiful? – Rare antiquity or outright fake? – For more than a decade Concordia University has investigated the origins of a mysterious sculpture. Once part of the Diniacopoulos Collection of Mediterranean antiquities,...
- Diplomat Caught Attempting To Smuggle Artefact - Which Was Actually A Fake
Asharq Alawsat (Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid) A diplomat was stopped recently by Cairo Airport authorities, who wanted to x-ray his luggage. The diplomat refused, but his objections were unsuccessful, and the Egyptian authorities insisted that all luggage must...
- Exhibition: More Re Unearthing The Truth - Egypt’s Pagan And Coptic Sculpture
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The exhibition, on view from February 13 to May 19, 2009, presents 30 Late Antique works (395-642 A.D.), many genuine, alongside reworked or repainted objects and a number of modern forgeries in an ambitious attempt to explain...
- Ancient Skulls Returned To Egypt
BBC News Two ancient Egyptian skulls which were found buried in a back garden in Manchester have been returned to Egypt. Matthew McClelland, 28, unearthed the skulls while digging at his home on Ivygreen Road, Chorlton, last June. The skulls were confiscated...
- Ssea - Searching For Ancient Egypt In Canada
http://sseamontrealvip.homestead.com/Project-EN.htmlUnder Dr. Brigitte Ouellet, President of the SSEA's (Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities) Quebec Chapter in Montreal work has begun to identify Egyptian artefacts in Canada's museums,...