Egypt
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford)
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- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- The Situation At The Egyptian Museum In Cairo
Rather than post a series of links in my usual way I have aggregated all the news items about the Egyptian Museum from the last two weeks to form some sort of narrative. I hope that this helps readers to get a coherent idea of what has been happening....
- Replacements For Hawass Being Appointed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford says on his blog that the professor of archival studies at Cairo University, Dr Emad Abu Ghazi, will be the newly appointed Minister of Culture and Antiquities in Egypt, replacing...
- Tourism In Egypt
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has a small rant about the new rules re photography in the Valley of the Kings, explains why he cannot post some of the 1000s of photographs he took whilst he was in Egypt and...
Egypt
More speculation about what happened at the Egyptian Museum
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford)
As a result of two days (almost solid) spent mooching around the Egyptian Museum in Cairo comparing the images of the vandalism and looting that appeared in the press with the actual traces in the places where they happened, I came to a number of conclusions and formulated a number of questions. I have actually been promised a meeting with “somebody who can answer your questions” by a member of the Museum’s directorate when I go back to Cairo. Until then I have written down what I currently think and the draft is twelve pages without the insertion of any of the Al Jazeera and other generally available images to which it refers. Since I am currently promised some more information where it is currently lacking, I will not release that text at this stage. I would like however to state some of the conclusions I have drawn on the basis of what have learnt to date.
See the above page for the full story.
- Missing Items Recovered From Cairo Museum
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found...
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- The Situation At The Egyptian Museum In Cairo
Rather than post a series of links in my usual way I have aggregated all the news items about the Egyptian Museum from the last two weeks to form some sort of narrative. I hope that this helps readers to get a coherent idea of what has been happening....
- Replacements For Hawass Being Appointed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford says on his blog that the professor of archival studies at Cairo University, Dr Emad Abu Ghazi, will be the newly appointed Minister of Culture and Antiquities in Egypt, replacing...
- Tourism In Egypt
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has a small rant about the new rules re photography in the Valley of the Kings, explains why he cannot post some of the 1000s of photographs he took whilst he was in Egypt and...