Egypt
Herald Sun
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
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...
- More Re Statues Found At Kom El-hettan
drhawass.com Press release with photo. The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that two red granite statues of King Amenhotep III and of the god Thoth, were unearthed near the Pharaoh’s funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan on Luxor’s west bank....
- Amenhotep's Eye Back To Cairo From Switzerland
Egypt State Information Service The stolen eye of Pharaonic king Amenhotep III returned to Cairo from Switzerland on Thursday 23/10/52008, accompanied by Abdel-Hamid Ma'aruf, the director general of the Egyptian antiquities registration center. The...
- Amenhotep Iii Lost Eye
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13945243.htm At the bottom of one of numerous short pieces about Egypt's request for the return of the St Louis mask, was this short paragraph on the Kansas City Star website, from the Associated...
- A Return Of The King
Amenhotep III stolen eye has arrived back in Egypt after a 36 year long journey abroad. The eye was chipped off a statue of the Pharaoh during a fire at the Luxor temple. http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001064.htm...
Egypt
Pharaoh gets his eye back
Herald Sun
SWITZERLAND is to return a pharaoh's "eye" stolen 36 years ago from the ancient Egyptian statue of King Amenhotep III.
"The eye is around 50cm long and was stolen from Amenhotep III's statue, which was discovered in 1970 in his Luxor temple," Egypt's culture minister Faruk Hosni said.
The eye was stolen in 1972 when a fire broke out around the temple.
"The thieves sold it to an American antiquities dealer who then auctioned it at Sotheby's," he said.
There, the eye was bought by a German antiquities dealer before ending up in a museum in Basel, Switzerland.
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
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...
- More Re Statues Found At Kom El-hettan
drhawass.com Press release with photo. The Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, announced that two red granite statues of King Amenhotep III and of the god Thoth, were unearthed near the Pharaoh’s funerary temple at Kom el-Hettan on Luxor’s west bank....
- Amenhotep's Eye Back To Cairo From Switzerland
Egypt State Information Service The stolen eye of Pharaonic king Amenhotep III returned to Cairo from Switzerland on Thursday 23/10/52008, accompanied by Abdel-Hamid Ma'aruf, the director general of the Egyptian antiquities registration center. The...
- Amenhotep Iii Lost Eye
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13945243.htm At the bottom of one of numerous short pieces about Egypt's request for the return of the St Louis mask, was this short paragraph on the Kansas City Star website, from the Associated...
- A Return Of The King
Amenhotep III stolen eye has arrived back in Egypt after a 36 year long journey abroad. The eye was chipped off a statue of the Pharaoh during a fire at the Luxor temple. http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001064.htm...