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Egypt
Nine limestone reliefs are back home from Spain
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photo.
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 necropolis.
The story of the objects goes back to 1999, when the nine limestone reliefs were reported missing from their original location on the walls of the sixth dynasty tomb of a nobleman called Imep-Hor, located in Kom Al-Khamsin area in Saqqara, 15 miles south of the Giza plateau.
The reliefs are engraved with hieroglyphic texts showing different names of the tomb’s owner and religious chapters from the Book of the Dead.
Ahmed Mostafa, former head of the return antiquities department as the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA), told Ahram Online that one of these reliefs was found three years ago on the list of a well known auction house in Spain. The Ministry, which was then called the Supreme Council of Antiquities, asked the Spanish government to stop the auction as the relief was an Egyptian possession that has been stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country.
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Ahram Online The Antikhenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland will return to Egypt a limestone relief depicting a hunting scene from the daily life of its owner. The relief is dated to the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (c. 2649-2134 BC) and it is 51cm high...
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Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El Aref has been busy this week. This is a nice compliment to her previous article (below) about the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities. A 26th-dynasty limestone relief and two Graeco-Roman skulls...
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Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Six months after its establishment, the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities has convened for the first time. Nevine El-Aref attended the meeting. The Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Smuggled Artefacts Returning To Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The two ancient Egyptian objects were saved for the nation when the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) succeeded in halting their sale in London and Amsterdam respectively as part of its campaign to stamp out the trade...
- Egypt Secures Auction Pull-out
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