Egypt
- Update Re St Louis Mask
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598537/The SCA have given the St Louis Art Museum a deadline for returning the Mask, which they believe was stolen from Saqqara, and is therefore rightfully the property of Egypt: "If only the 3,000-year-old mummy mask at the...
- St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/z8qma "The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and in dispute: " Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse...
- Short Update Re The St Louis Mask
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=92858 "Nefer's mask was purchased by the museum in 1998 for nearly a half a million dollars, but now the Egyptian government wants it back. 'About 10 days ago, we received a letter from Dr. Zahi...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...
Egypt
Ongoing dispute over St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/fdzqz (hamiltonspectator.com)
The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask, unless it sees more proof it belongs to Egypt. The museum will not meet a May 15 deadline set by Egyptian antiquities authorities to return the mask, museum director Brent Benjamin said yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/kt3kz (stltoday.com)
Benjamin has said the museum exercised due diligence in 1998 at the time of the acquisition to determine whether the mask had been legally exported from Egypt.He said Friday that the museum independently verified the mask's known provenance, or history of ownership; that it contacted the Art Loss Register and Interpol to see if the mask had been reported missing, lost or stolen; and that it consulted with Mohammed Saleh, then director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, to ensure that the pending purchase was appropriate.Hawass has not specified what action he would take if the Monday deadline were not met.
http://tinyurl.com/kt3kz (stltoday.com)
Benjamin has said the museum exercised due diligence in 1998 at the time of the acquisition to determine whether the mask had been legally exported from Egypt.He said Friday that the museum independently verified the mask's known provenance, or history of ownership; that it contacted the Art Loss Register and Interpol to see if the mask had been reported missing, lost or stolen; and that it consulted with Mohammed Saleh, then director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, to ensure that the pending purchase was appropriate.Hawass has not specified what action he would take if the Monday deadline were not met.
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http://tinyurl.com/l3okm
- Update Re St Louis Mask
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598537/The SCA have given the St Louis Art Museum a deadline for returning the Mask, which they believe was stolen from Saqqara, and is therefore rightfully the property of Egypt: "If only the 3,000-year-old mummy mask at the...
- St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/z8qma "The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and in dispute: " Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse...
- Short Update Re The St Louis Mask
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=92858 "Nefer's mask was purchased by the museum in 1998 for nearly a half a million dollars, but now the Egyptian government wants it back. 'About 10 days ago, we received a letter from Dr. Zahi...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...