Egypt
Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky)
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- The St Louis Mask Issue Is Still Alive And Kicking
River Front Times (Malcolm Gay) Some of you may remember that a very beautiful funerary mask, currently located in the St Louis Art Museum, has been the topic of repatriation disputes in the past. I have covered this in a number of posts (click the link...
- Tempest In A Teapot
http://tinyurl.com/vrxvb (sltoday.com)Irreverent New Year's Eve round up from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, in which they round up the most notable events of the year. An Egyptology reference creeps in as a result of the earlier controversy (still unresolved)...
- Update: St Louis Mask
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=110108 (in Arabic)Thanks very much indeed to professional Arabic-English translator Eric Mueller for this email, and the translation of the above article on the Saudi-based Islammemo website. Eric, I am...
- Dr. Hawass On Tut And Other Things
This is an interview with Dr. Zahi Hawass on the travelling king Tut exhibition now in New York. For the first time in a long time Dr. Hawass mentions the mask known as Kanefernefer in the St. Louis Art museum which was allegedly stolen out of a storage...
Egypt
Hawass chides museums over antiquities
Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky)
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said has a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen before the museum acquired it.
``We're going to fight to get these unique artifacts back,'' Hawass said at the New York preview of the ``Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,'' an exhibition that has traveled to five other U.S. cities and London.
Last week, he said, he turned over to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ``all the evidence that I have to prove that this mask was stolen, and we have to bring it back.''
On Wednesday, St. Louis Art Museum spokeswoman Jennifer Stoffel, said the institution ``had correspondence with Hawass in 2006 and 2007 and has not heard anything on the matter since.''
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- The St Louis Mask Issue Is Still Alive And Kicking
River Front Times (Malcolm Gay) Some of you may remember that a very beautiful funerary mask, currently located in the St Louis Art Museum, has been the topic of repatriation disputes in the past. I have covered this in a number of posts (click the link...
- Tempest In A Teapot
http://tinyurl.com/vrxvb (sltoday.com)Irreverent New Year's Eve round up from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, in which they round up the most notable events of the year. An Egyptology reference creeps in as a result of the earlier controversy (still unresolved)...
- Update: St Louis Mask
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/one_news.asp?IDNews=110108 (in Arabic)Thanks very much indeed to professional Arabic-English translator Eric Mueller for this email, and the translation of the above article on the Saudi-based Islammemo website. Eric, I am...
- Dr. Hawass On Tut And Other Things
This is an interview with Dr. Zahi Hawass on the travelling king Tut exhibition now in New York. For the first time in a long time Dr. Hawass mentions the mask known as Kanefernefer in the St. Louis Art museum which was allegedly stolen out of a storage...