Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni)
- Sca Website
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- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
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Egypt
Minister announces new antiquities guidelines
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni)
Culture Minister Farouk Hosni on Sunday issued a list of new regulations to be adopted by his ministry in line with guidelines laid out in the recently approved Egyptian Antiquity Protection Law.
The 199-article antiquities law was ratified by the People's Assembly on 15 February.
Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) Secretary-General Zahi Hawass stated that some of the new regulations specifically pertained to the SCA. New directives, according to Hawass, include guidelines for defining what constitutes an "antiquity" per se; determining ownership of antiquities; regulating archeological excavations; and specifying how antiquities should be inventoried, preserved and restored.
Other regulations touch on tourism management at sites featuring antiquities and at Egyptian museums. The regulations also specify the fees to be charged for visiting these sites and photographing antiquities.
- Sca Website
Supreme Council of Antiquities (English www.sca-egypt.org/ara/main.htm (Arabic) There's been a lot of talk recently about the SCA website and the information it contains about which sites are open and what ticket prices cost. The site is available...
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zawya.com (Safaa Abdoun) Protection of Egypt's antiquities was the subject of heated debate at the People's Assembly as steel mogul and senior National Democratic Party MP Ahmed Ezz and Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni argued over private ownership...
- Guidelines On Collecting Of Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com) "Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum...
- A Play On Words
I felt the need to write a second article on the recent tightening of Egyptian law particularly on a couple of points. Firstly people scrawling their name on a monument is a violation of our shared cultural heritage and nobody other than the vandal cares...
- Threatening To Resign
A bill is making it's way through the Egyptian parliament that has infuriated the Egyptian minister of culture, Mr. Farouk Hosni and his vice minister the head of Egypt's Supreme council of antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass. The bill, which will probably...