Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
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- More Re Bank Returning Artefacts To Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) With photos. Nevine El-Aref reveals how 200 genuine objects from the ancient Egyptian era to modern times held in a bank vault for decades were handed over to the Supreme Council of Antiquities Early this week, in a scene...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Unaffordable For Australia
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- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Update On Items Returned By Australia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200725g.htm A second statement from Egypt's State Information Service"An Egyptian delegation, currently visiting Australia, received seven valuable monuments. Egyptian authorities had contacted their Australian...
Egypt
More information re return of items from Australia
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
A collection of ancient Egyptian and Graeco-Roman figurines and miniature amulets are on their way home from Australia, reports Nevine El-Aref.
This week Egypt is celebrating the restitution of 122 ancient Egyptian and Graeco-Roman artefacts that have been recovered from Australia. All the items, which vary from miniature amulets to larger bronze statues from the Neolithic to the Graeco-Roman eras, were stolen several years ago from archaeological sites in Egypt. The handover ceremony was hosted by Egyptian Ambassador to Australia Omar Metwalli at the embassy premises in Canberra.
Mustafa Amin, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), told a press conference that the objects were hidden for almost a decade inside the storehouses of the Mossgreen Auction hall.
When the SCA learnt about plans to sell off these objects from the auctioneer's catalogue, officers contacted the Egyptian Embassy in Canberra, which on its turn contacted the Australian authorities with a request that the sale be stopped.
- Australia Will Return 122 Egyptian Archeological Pieces
Canberra Times (Samantha Meys) A hoard of stolen ancient Egyptian artefacts were yesterday returned to Egypt after a whirlwind few months of travel. Office for the Arts representative Sally Basser handed the 122 artefacts to ambassador Omar Metwally in...
- More Re Bank Returning Artefacts To Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) With photos. Nevine El-Aref reveals how 200 genuine objects from the ancient Egyptian era to modern times held in a bank vault for decades were handed over to the Supreme Council of Antiquities Early this week, in a scene...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Unaffordable For Australia
Sydney Morning Herald (Catharine Munro and Jason Koutsoukis) A BLOCKBUSTER exhibition of King Tutankhamun will not tour Australia because museums cannot afford it. Egypt wants to send the world's most successful tour of artefacts from the tomb of...
- Pirated Skulls Come Home
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
- Update On Items Returned By Australia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200725g.htm A second statement from Egypt's State Information Service"An Egyptian delegation, currently visiting Australia, received seven valuable monuments. Egyptian authorities had contacted their Australian...