Egypt
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/17/international/i151634D53.DTL
- 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...
- More On Returning Antiquities With The Help Of Unesco
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/eg7.htm "The summer heat notwithstanding, temperatures are rising in the international antiquities world following a call by Egypt for the return of five Ancient Egyptian pieces on display abroad. In a speech at a meeting...
- Stolen Relics To Return
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/1.asp "Some of Egypt's stolen antiquities might be returned. Switzerland has recently become party to an international agreement on the prevention of antiquity smuggling. The agreement would give the Egyptians...
- 5th Dynasty Relief Returned To Egypt
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14606 "A Brussels museum will hand over to Egypt a limestone relief that had been smuggled out of the country more than 30 years ago, an Egyptian antiquities official said...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...
Egypt
New tactics to secure return of Egyptian artefacts
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/17/international/i151634D53.DTL
New tactics are being employed concerning the return of items to Egypt that are alleged to have been removed without permission: "Egypt demanded that institutions in Britain and Belgium return two pharaonic reliefs it says were chipped off tombs and stolen 30 years ago, threatening Sunday to end their archaeological work here if they refuse . . . . Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he would cut off the Catholic University's excavation mission at a site in Deir al-Barsha, near the southern town of Minya, if the relief was not returned, and would suspend the Fitzwilliam Museum's 'scientific relationship' with archaeologists working here if the British institution did not cooperate." Apparently they have already used the tactic successfully on another museum in Belgium. The two reliefs concerned are reported to be 4,400-year-old reliefs, taken from two tombs uncovered in 1965 near the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. See the article for more, including a quote on the subject from Zahi Hawass.
- 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...
- More On Returning Antiquities With The Help Of Unesco
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/eg7.htm "The summer heat notwithstanding, temperatures are rising in the international antiquities world following a call by Egypt for the return of five Ancient Egyptian pieces on display abroad. In a speech at a meeting...
- Stolen Relics To Return
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/1.asp "Some of Egypt's stolen antiquities might be returned. Switzerland has recently become party to an international agreement on the prevention of antiquity smuggling. The agreement would give the Egyptians...
- 5th Dynasty Relief Returned To Egypt
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14606 "A Brussels museum will hand over to Egypt a limestone relief that had been smuggled out of the country more than 30 years ago, an Egyptian antiquities official said...
- The Louvre Suspension
Five fragments of wall paintings in the Louvre were stolen from an Egyptian tomb in 1980 in an area of the Theban necropolis known as "the tombs of the nobles". The Supreme council of antiquities informed the Louvre's director Henri Loyrette who apparently...