Egypt
Archaeology Magazine
The full background story about the investigation and the trial is available on the above page.
Londonist
- Egypt Restores Archaeological Piece From Mexico
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos. After three years in the custody of the Mexican government for investigation, Egypt receives a 17x15cm-wide New Kingdom relief that had been smuggled out of the country illegally. The story of the relief began...
- Egypt To Retrieve 19th-dynasty Statue From Netherlands
Egypt State Information Service Discovered in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, Ushabti - an ancient funerary statue - could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs. Dating back to the 19th Dynasty, Ushabti was identified when a collector - who...
- Egypt Asks Us To Return 80 Stolen Artifacts
Egypt State Information Service A follow up to the story about the Predynastic vessels from Maadi which were smuggled out of the country by a U.S. pilot. Zahi Hawass is due to meet with U.S. officials to discuss matters further, but it seems extremely...
- Head Of Amenhotep
This is a photo of the now famous head of Amenhotep III confiscated from a smuggling ring headed by Jonathan Tokeley Parry...
- Stolen Head Returned
This stone head of Amenhotep III was stolen 20 years ago in a very famous case and now has been returned to the Egyptian embassy. The article has a picture of the head. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7794437.stm...
Egypt
Pharaoh's head returned to Egypt
Archaeology Magazine
The full background story about the investigation and the trial is available on the above page.
Londonist
Egyptian authorities have taken possession of a 3,500-year old sculpture of a Pharaoh's head, nearly 20 years after it was spirited out of Egypt by the grubby mitts of a notorious London antiques dealer.
In 1990, thrillingly-named varmint Jonathan Tokeley-Parry came into possession of the head, which depicts Amenhotep III, who died in 1375. In order to smuggle it out of the country, he disguised it as a tacky souvenir by dipping it in plastic and painting it black, thus hiding its dignified provenance. The artifact was then shunted mercilessly from country to country like a Ryanair stewardess.
Despite Tokeley-Parry's fiendish ways, the authorities (possibly working on a tip-off from Indiana Jones) busted his game wide open when an assistant tried to sell stolen papyrus texts to the British Museum, and he was jailed in 1997 for three years. Since then, the two countries have churned through the legalities of the sculpture's return, and it was handed over to the country's embassy this past weekend, from whence it shall be returned to the Middle East.
- Egypt Restores Archaeological Piece From Mexico
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With 2 photos. After three years in the custody of the Mexican government for investigation, Egypt receives a 17x15cm-wide New Kingdom relief that had been smuggled out of the country illegally. The story of the relief began...
- Egypt To Retrieve 19th-dynasty Statue From Netherlands
Egypt State Information Service Discovered in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, Ushabti - an ancient funerary statue - could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs. Dating back to the 19th Dynasty, Ushabti was identified when a collector - who...
- Egypt Asks Us To Return 80 Stolen Artifacts
Egypt State Information Service A follow up to the story about the Predynastic vessels from Maadi which were smuggled out of the country by a U.S. pilot. Zahi Hawass is due to meet with U.S. officials to discuss matters further, but it seems extremely...
- Head Of Amenhotep
This is a photo of the now famous head of Amenhotep III confiscated from a smuggling ring headed by Jonathan Tokeley Parry...
- Stolen Head Returned
This stone head of Amenhotep III was stolen 20 years ago in a very famous case and now has been returned to the Egyptian embassy. The article has a picture of the head. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7794437.stm...