Egypt
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- Review: Hawass Interview On Al Jazeera
Culture Grrl (Lee Rosenbaum) A short critical post which highlights an interview from July 2007 on Al Jazeera with Zahi Hawass regarding the repatriation and loan of antiquities which are currently held outside Egypt. The interview can be found in full...
- Germany Lends Statue To Egypt For Show
IOL Egypt said on Tuesday that Germany had agreed to return a 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue for a temporary exhibition at the inauguration of the new Egyptian Museum in 2011. Antiquity supremo Zahi Hawass said the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in...
- Formal Request For Loan Of Antiquities For Museum Opening
http://tinyurl.com/2aupub (sis.gov.eg)"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has formally requested the temporary display of unique ancient Egyptian antiquities kept in several museums abroad during the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum in...
Egypt
More artefacts to be requested for Museum opening
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_en_ot/egypt_antiquities_4
"Egypt said Sunday it would seek the temporary return of some of its most precious artifacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta Stone and a bust of Nefertiti.
The country's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the Foreign Ministry would send letters this week to France, Germany, the United States and Great Britain requesting that the ancient artifacts be loaned to Egypt.
Hawass has previously demanded the permanent return of many of the artifacts, claiming some of them were taken illegally.
This time, the country is requesting museums loan the artifacts so they can be exhibited either at the 2011 opening of the Egyptian Museum, near the site of the Great Pyramids at Giza, or the Atum museum, which is set to open in the Nile Delta city of Meniya in 2010, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement. . . . The other artifacts Hawass would like to see put on display in Egypt are the Zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, now housed in the Louvre; the statute of Hemiunu — the nephew and vizier of Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the Great pyramid — in Germany's Roemer-Pelizaeu museum; and the bust of Anchhaf, builder of the Chephren Pyramid, now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston."
The country's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the Foreign Ministry would send letters this week to France, Germany, the United States and Great Britain requesting that the ancient artifacts be loaned to Egypt.
Hawass has previously demanded the permanent return of many of the artifacts, claiming some of them were taken illegally.
This time, the country is requesting museums loan the artifacts so they can be exhibited either at the 2011 opening of the Egyptian Museum, near the site of the Great Pyramids at Giza, or the Atum museum, which is set to open in the Nile Delta city of Meniya in 2010, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement. . . . The other artifacts Hawass would like to see put on display in Egypt are the Zodiac ceiling painting from the Dendera Temple, now housed in the Louvre; the statute of Hemiunu — the nephew and vizier of Pharaoh Khufu, builder of the Great pyramid — in Germany's Roemer-Pelizaeu museum; and the bust of Anchhaf, builder of the Chephren Pyramid, now at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston."
- Another Bid For The Return Of Nefertiti
Ahram Online With photos. Egypt’s minister for antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has announced that he will send an official letter to the German government requesting the return of the painted Nefertiti bust now on display at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Hawass...
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- Review: Hawass Interview On Al Jazeera
Culture Grrl (Lee Rosenbaum) A short critical post which highlights an interview from July 2007 on Al Jazeera with Zahi Hawass regarding the repatriation and loan of antiquities which are currently held outside Egypt. The interview can be found in full...
- Germany Lends Statue To Egypt For Show
IOL Egypt said on Tuesday that Germany had agreed to return a 4500-year-old ancient Egyptian statue for a temporary exhibition at the inauguration of the new Egyptian Museum in 2011. Antiquity supremo Zahi Hawass said the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in...
- Formal Request For Loan Of Antiquities For Museum Opening
http://tinyurl.com/2aupub (sis.gov.eg)"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has formally requested the temporary display of unique ancient Egyptian antiquities kept in several museums abroad during the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum in...