Egypt
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- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Official Repatriation Request For Bust Of Nefertiti
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Heritge Key reports that the SCA have announced that they have requested the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin. There's also some helpful background information in the article. The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- Egypt Response To German Refusal To Loan Nefertiti Bust
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/16/eng20070416_366754.html"Egypt Sunday said it will never hold any antiquity exhibition in Germany in the future unless Germany temporarily returns the bust of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, the official news agency...
- Issues Surrounding The Nefertiti Bust.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/he1.htmNevine El-Aref talking about the request, made by Zahi Hawass, to lend Egypt the famous Nefertiti bust, currently on permanent display in Berlin, for a three month period: "Hawass asked the German government...
Egypt
German response to Egyptian Nefertiti request
Bloomberg
According to Bloomberg the Egyptian request for the return of the Nefertiti bust to Egypt has been rejected by Germany on the grounds that the request was not sent to the government, but to Herman Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin. It seems that the German government has decided that the request does not conform to required protocols and is therefore not official and will not be addressed.
The German government said it doesn’t view Egypt’s request as official, because the letter was addressed to Parzinger rather than the government.
“The government’s position on Nefertiti is well known and hasn’t changed,” Andreas Peschke, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters today in Berlin.
German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann has said that his country’s procurement of the bust was lawful and that Egypt had no grounds to demand its return. Germany refused to lend the statue in 2007, citing its fragility.
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Official Repatriation Request For Bust Of Nefertiti
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts) Heritge Key reports that the SCA have announced that they have requested the return of the Nefertiti bust from Berlin. There's also some helpful background information in the article. The Supreme Council of Antiquities announced...
- Cool Response From Berlin To Egypt's Official Nefertiti Request
Monsters and Critics Berlin responded cooly on Friday to renewed demands from Cairo that the prized bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti should be returned to its country of origin from its current home in a Berlin museum. 'A request from Egypt to return...
- Egypt Response To German Refusal To Loan Nefertiti Bust
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/16/eng20070416_366754.html"Egypt Sunday said it will never hold any antiquity exhibition in Germany in the future unless Germany temporarily returns the bust of ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, the official news agency...
- Issues Surrounding The Nefertiti Bust.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/he1.htmNevine El-Aref talking about the request, made by Zahi Hawass, to lend Egypt the famous Nefertiti bust, currently on permanent display in Berlin, for a three month period: "Hawass asked the German government...