Egypt
- Slideshow Of The Ashmolean Musem Egyptian Galleries
The Telegraph (Video by Glen Milner) Video. Thanks to the Collecting Egypt blog for this link. I really must visit! The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has opened six spectacular new galleries for its world-renowned Egyptian collections, exhibiting...
- The Mummy Of Amenhotep
Here we have the newly restored mummy of a child named Amenhotep who's mummy was damaged during the robbery of the Cairo Museum in January of 2011. The looters who entered the museum via a skylight broke the head off Amenhotep and today is being re-exhibited...
- 216 Of 1049 Artifacts Returned
This article from Al Ahram states that 5 more objects have been returned to the the officials of the Malawi museum including this bronze of the God Toth. The even better news is that about 1/5th of the museums lost artifacts have been returned....
- The Missing Princess Of The Malawi Museum
National Geographic has a whole series of excellent images of the Malawi museum before and after the tragic looting of the middle of August. The statuette above is of a daughter of Akhenaten and is among the most important of the missing artifacts....
- Malawi Museum Damaged And Looted
Things are looking worse for Egypt with riots and violence taking hold including the burning of Coptic churches and the damaging and looting of the Malawi museum supposedly of most of its artifacts. Yesterday it was announced that all museums and archaeological...
Egypt
Malawi Museum Artifacts to be Restored
About a dozen damaged artifacts too heavy for looters to carry away and left behind in the Malawi museum including a collection of statues, a number of painted coffins and two mummies have been sent for restoration at the Al-Ashmuonein archaeological galleries.
- Slideshow Of The Ashmolean Musem Egyptian Galleries
The Telegraph (Video by Glen Milner) Video. Thanks to the Collecting Egypt blog for this link. I really must visit! The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has opened six spectacular new galleries for its world-renowned Egyptian collections, exhibiting...
- The Mummy Of Amenhotep
Here we have the newly restored mummy of a child named Amenhotep who's mummy was damaged during the robbery of the Cairo Museum in January of 2011. The looters who entered the museum via a skylight broke the head off Amenhotep and today is being re-exhibited...
- 216 Of 1049 Artifacts Returned
This article from Al Ahram states that 5 more objects have been returned to the the officials of the Malawi museum including this bronze of the God Toth. The even better news is that about 1/5th of the museums lost artifacts have been returned....
- The Missing Princess Of The Malawi Museum
National Geographic has a whole series of excellent images of the Malawi museum before and after the tragic looting of the middle of August. The statuette above is of a daughter of Akhenaten and is among the most important of the missing artifacts....
- Malawi Museum Damaged And Looted
Things are looking worse for Egypt with riots and violence taking hold including the burning of Coptic churches and the damaging and looting of the Malawi museum supposedly of most of its artifacts. Yesterday it was announced that all museums and archaeological...