Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- More Re Repatriation Conference
Egypt State Information Service I've trawled through the various media reports on the subject of the conference and it is a real shame that we only hear the Egyptian point of view in any of the reports. Obviously Hawass took centre stage because it...
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- Repatriation: It's Not Just Egypt
Sydney Morning Herald (Jason Koutsoukis) Egypt will host an international conference next March for countries seeking the return of ancient indigenous treasures being kept in foreign museums. The secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
- Egyptology In The Near Future
Dr Zahi Hawass is announcing that there will be a number of new discoveries revealed in the next few months including discoveries at Saqqara. He also says he has also granted permission for a robot to enter the great pyramid to explore the shafts. Dr....
- Cairo Conference
A multi national conference is to be held in Cairo to deal with issues of repatriation of artifacts removed over the centuries. Among the countries who will participate include Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, China, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan,...
Egypt
Hawas to assert rights of countries with ancient civilisations in Peru conference
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass travelled yesterday to Peru on an official four-day visit to participate in the Second International Conference to Recover Stolen Antiquities to be held in the capital city of Lima, whose attendees come from over twenty countries.
At the conference opening session before Peru’s president Alan Garcia Perez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, Hawass will deliver Egypt's speech reminding the attendees that Egypt is the country that called for this conference to convene and that the first conference was held in Cairo in April last year with the presence of thirty countries.
- More Re Repatriation Conference
Egypt State Information Service I've trawled through the various media reports on the subject of the conference and it is a real shame that we only hear the Egyptian point of view in any of the reports. Obviously Hawass took centre stage because it...
- Egypt Forum On Looted Antiquities Calls For Unity
France24 With photos of the Nefertiti bust, Hawass in his familiar speech-with-mics mode and the Rosetta Stone. Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass on Wednesday opened an international conference on recovering ancient artefacts from abroad, saying...
- Repatriation: It's Not Just Egypt
Sydney Morning Herald (Jason Koutsoukis) Egypt will host an international conference next March for countries seeking the return of ancient indigenous treasures being kept in foreign museums. The secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities,...
- Egyptology In The Near Future
Dr Zahi Hawass is announcing that there will be a number of new discoveries revealed in the next few months including discoveries at Saqqara. He also says he has also granted permission for a robot to enter the great pyramid to explore the shafts. Dr....
- Cairo Conference
A multi national conference is to be held in Cairo to deal with issues of repatriation of artifacts removed over the centuries. Among the countries who will participate include Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, China, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan,...