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...
- Egyptomania: Egypt-themed Mural Newly Uncovered
Whittier Daily News Beneath 2 inches of sand, red terra cotta tiles and cement, four sheets of asphalt, and tar used to seal a roof after the 1933 earthquake, a note-worthy tile mural was found. The Campbell Apartments in Long Beach, first completed...
- Hosni Rejects Idea For A Jewish Museum In Egypt
State Information Service The Culture Ministry stressed that it will never permit any U.S Jewish or non U.S Jewish organization to set up a museum for Jewish antiquities in Egypt. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who met with a U.S Jewish...
- More Re Restrictions At Tomb Of Tutankhamun
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouq Hosni decided to limit the number of visitors to King Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor to 400 visitors daily as of next December in the context of the ministry's plan to protect the royal tombs...
- University Returns Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/nfw3d (andnetwork.com)"The University of Tubingen in Germany has agreed to return to Egypt five fragments of a relief removed in the last century from the Temple of Pharaoh Seti I, Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said. The fragments, which...
Egypt
Mural returned by Germany
http://tinyurl.com/pac7r (sis.gov.eg)
"Germany is to hand over sections of an ancient Egyptian mural to an Egyptian delegation Monday. 'The delegation from the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will receive five sections of a mural painting stolen from the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of Kings near Luxor,' said Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said yesterday 25/6/2006. SCA Secretary General Zahi Hawass hailed the move by Egyptology Institute affiliated to the University of Tuebingen. The section of the mural will be restored to their original place in the tomb, Hawass added."
- 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...
- Egyptomania: Egypt-themed Mural Newly Uncovered
Whittier Daily News Beneath 2 inches of sand, red terra cotta tiles and cement, four sheets of asphalt, and tar used to seal a roof after the 1933 earthquake, a note-worthy tile mural was found. The Campbell Apartments in Long Beach, first completed...
- Hosni Rejects Idea For A Jewish Museum In Egypt
State Information Service The Culture Ministry stressed that it will never permit any U.S Jewish or non U.S Jewish organization to set up a museum for Jewish antiquities in Egypt. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who met with a U.S Jewish...
- More Re Restrictions At Tomb Of Tutankhamun
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouq Hosni decided to limit the number of visitors to King Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor to 400 visitors daily as of next December in the context of the ministry's plan to protect the royal tombs...
- University Returns Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/nfw3d (andnetwork.com)"The University of Tubingen in Germany has agreed to return to Egypt five fragments of a relief removed in the last century from the Temple of Pharaoh Seti I, Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said. The fragments, which...