Egypt
Luxor Times
With 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...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Akht Back Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A GRANITE engraving depicting a cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht is back in Egypt. Eleven years after having gone missing from its original location in Behbit Al-Hegara temple in the Nile Delta, a granite engraving...
- Granite Depiction Of Cow-shaped Deity Returns To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) After 11 years of absence from the Behbit El-Hegara temple in El-Gharbiya governorate, the engraving featuring the cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht will soon be back in its original position. The engraving is part of...
- Stolen 30th Dynasty Relief Returned To Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/eg3.htm A 30th Dynasty granite relief has been returned to Egypt by Christie's auction house in New York. The relief was one part of a larger scene which had been removed from the temple of Behbeit Al-Hegara in...
Egypt
Egyptian item repatriated from the UK
Luxor Times
With photos.
Back from an auction hall in London, Egypt managed to retrieve a granite relief which is a part of a bigger scene from the 30th dynasty temple of Isis in Bahbit Al hegara, Delta(known as Iseum or Isaeum). The relief depicts a head and shoulders of Apis dated back to King Nectanebo II (380-343 B.C) and it was documented by Chrisitan Favard meeks in 1977 as well as the Egyptian Atiquities records in 1989.
On Friday 5th January 1990, a guard working at the temple site reported that thugs attacked the site and stole some artefacts and next day the inventory showed missing pieces which were reported and the retrieved artefacts is one of them.
There are a number of posts about this on Egyptian sate-run sites as well but all of my usual Egyptian sites are inaccessible today (including Ahram Online, Al Ahram Weekly, the Egyptian Gazette and the Egypt State Information Service). I'll post those links when the sites come back up.
- 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...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Akht Back Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A GRANITE engraving depicting a cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht is back in Egypt. Eleven years after having gone missing from its original location in Behbit Al-Hegara temple in the Nile Delta, a granite engraving...
- Granite Depiction Of Cow-shaped Deity Returns To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) After 11 years of absence from the Behbit El-Hegara temple in El-Gharbiya governorate, the engraving featuring the cow-shaped ancient Egyptian deity Akht will soon be back in its original position. The engraving is part of...
- Stolen 30th Dynasty Relief Returned To Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/eg3.htm A 30th Dynasty granite relief has been returned to Egypt by Christie's auction house in New York. The relief was one part of a larger scene which had been removed from the temple of Behbeit Al-Hegara in...