Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
With two photos.
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus To Egypt
npr Thanks to Tony Marson for the above link. A 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt after a trip around the world. At a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities returned the sarcophagus,...
- Third Intermediate Period Coffin Seized In Miami
Looting Matters (David Gill) A Third Intermediate Coffin belonging to the 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Ames has been confiscated in Miami ("Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US", AP March 22, 2009). Zahi Hawass claims that the wooden coffin was removed...
- The Repatriation Of Imesy
Well at least the coffin of Imesy one would suspect that Imesy himself is probably still in Egypt though I imagine without his name. This is an article by Dr. Hawass on his repatriation of the coffin....
- Return Of The Sarcophagus
Here we see the repatriation ceremony including Dr. Zahi Hawass for that twenty first dynasty coffin seized in Miami last year. The coffin may not be much to look at but the video is interesting....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...
Egypt
More re return of Imesby
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
With two photos.
You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Nevine El-Aref reports on the return of a previously unknown coffin that was only found thanks to the diligence of US customs officers
Following almost 18 months of investigations and legal battles involving fraudulent possession and shipment, a 21st- Dynasty coffin of a private individual named Imesy is to come back to Egypt early in March.
Culture Minister Farouk Hosni describes the coffin, which is plastered and painted with colourful religious scenes, as one of the most beautiful coffins of its type.
Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), says talks on the return of the coffin began in October 2008 when US customs officials at Miami International Airport detained a shipment from Spain containing the coffin, which was found to have no papers or provenance.
The lack of documentation raised the concern of the American authorities, who suspected that the coffin might have left Egypt illegally.
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus To Egypt
npr Thanks to Tony Marson for the above link. A 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt after a trip around the world. At a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities returned the sarcophagus,...
- Third Intermediate Period Coffin Seized In Miami
Looting Matters (David Gill) A Third Intermediate Coffin belonging to the 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Ames has been confiscated in Miami ("Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US", AP March 22, 2009). Zahi Hawass claims that the wooden coffin was removed...
- The Repatriation Of Imesy
Well at least the coffin of Imesy one would suspect that Imesy himself is probably still in Egypt though I imagine without his name. This is an article by Dr. Hawass on his repatriation of the coffin....
- Return Of The Sarcophagus
Here we see the repatriation ceremony including Dr. Zahi Hawass for that twenty first dynasty coffin seized in Miami last year. The coffin may not be much to look at but the video is interesting....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...