Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
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Egypt
Home via Eton College
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
The story of the retrieval of the items began in 2006, when the family of a London-based Egyptologist, the late Ron Davey, gifted his collection to the Myers Museum at Eton College along with an assemblage of photographs, slides and other useful study documentation. This archive and collection was offered to Davey in about 1992 by his friend and fellow Egyptologist Peter Webb.
On examining the Webb-Davey antiquities collection when they arrived at Eton, Nicholas Reeves, curator of the Myers Museum, was concerned to discover that a high proportion had been demonstrably acquired in Egypt during the period between 1972 and 1988, in other words after the 1970 UNESCO convention that ended the export of antiquities from Egypt. "I searched very carefully through the Webb-Davey documentation but was unable to discover any proof that permission had ever been granted by Egypt for an official export of these item," Reeves said. He added that the full background of the remainder of the pieces in the Webb- Davey collection was unclear. "They had seemingly been purchased by Webb or Davey in good faith on the London antiquities market during and after this same period," he said.
See the above page for the full story.
- Eton’s Egyptology Going To Birmingham (uk) And Baltimore (us)
The Art Newspaper (Martin Bailey) Eton College’s Egyptian antiquities have just gone on show at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham as part of a 15-year loan. “Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt” is a temporary exhibition...
- Eton College Returns Artefacts To Egypt
The Art Newspaper Eton College, in the south of England, has returned more than 450 antiquities to Egypt, after it was realised that many had probably been illegally exported. Last month we reported that the main part of the school’s collection, bequeathed...
- Egypt Retrieves 454 Ancient Artifacts From Eton’s Myers Museum
Bloomberg (Mahmoud Kassem and Emad Mekay) Egyptian authorities have recovered 454 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including pharaonic pottery and bronze coins, from the U.K.’s Myers Museum. They had been removed from the country more than 30 years ago....
- Hospital Helps Unravel The Mysteries Of Eygpt
This Is London Another older story which I missed from March. A HOSPITAL has helped reveal the secrets of mummified children from Egypt using state-of-the-art technology. A team of scientists, led by forensic Egyptologist Janet Davey, scanned three 2,000-year-old...
- On The Return From Eton Of Trinkets
The Myers museum at Eton has done what is correct as would be expected from an institution of its standing The issue is not with the correct actions of the Myers museum or any other institution in doing what is right but rather laws which take trivial...