Egypt
Mummy of a child and other items stolen from ancient tomb
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/8985729.htm
"A mummy more than 3,000 years old and other items have been stolen from a Pharaonic tomb near this southern Egyptian city....The missing objects were taken from the tomb of a nobleman who lived in the time of Pharaoh Akhenaton, who ruled in 1379-1362 B.C., said Sabri Abdel Aziz of Egypt's antiquity department." (www.timesleader.com)
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Nine Limestone Reliefs Are Back Home From Spain
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The stolen artefacts were missing for over a decade until they turned up in Barcelona After a thirteen year absence, nine ancient Egyptian limestone reliefs were returned to their original place in the Saqqara...
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Arqueólogos Hallan Restos De Un Templo De Ramsés Ii, Beni Suef
ABC Un grupo de arqueólogos ha hallado restos de un templo faraónico de la época de Ramsés II (1304-1237 a.C) cerca de la ciudad de Beni Suef, 20 kilómetros al sur de El Cairo, informó hoy el Consejo Supremo de Antigüedades (CSA). El jefe del Departamento...
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Statue Of Queen Ti Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/btf4g (Al Jazeera) "A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly...
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More Re The Impact Of Tutankhamun On Design
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/living/12968957.htm "Egyptian has become the motif du jour, inspired by Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, a four-city traveling exhibit. The boy king may seem an unlikely design muse, but he has...
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Objects Stolen From Qantara Storage
The final report is out on the objects stolen from the Qantara magazine after the 29th of January and before the contents of the magazine were taken to the Cairo museum. The report states that some 800 objects are missing from many historical periods...
Egypt