Egypt
- Egypt Smuggler Caught In Brussels, 80 Artefacts To Return Home
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Belgian court of appeal on Sunday ordered the return to Egypt of 80 artefacts stolen and smuggled out of the country. The artefacts were discovered in April 2010 when customs officials at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian...
- Two Reliefs Stolen From Saqqara Recovered
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Police have succeeded in recovering two well-preserved limestone reliefs stolen in 1986 by an international antiquities smuggling gang from Saqqara archaeological storehouses....
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Alleged Artifact Thieves Referred For Military Trial
Al Masry Al Youm The Tourism and Antiquities Police referred two suspects accused of stealing artifacts from the Egyptian Museum for military trial, according to an Interior Ministry statement released Monday. The statement said the antiquities police,...
- Amarna Princess Recovered
The Egyptian police have recovered the Amarna princess statuette stolen during the sacking of the Malawi museum this past summer. The statuette is one of the most important pieces stolen from that museum and one of about 800 artifacts recovered out of...
Egypt
Police recover pharaonic artefacts stolen in wake of revolution
Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref)
A collection of 35 ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen in the wake of last year's Tahrir Square uprising was recovered on Monday by Tourism and Antiquities police.
The objects were found buried in sand close to the Horemhab funerary complex in the Saqqara Necropolis on the outskirts of Cairo.
According to police, the objects were stolen from neighbouring archaeological sites during the uprising. The thieves, police speculate, had been planning to smuggle the objects out of the country at a later date.
- Egypt Smuggler Caught In Brussels, 80 Artefacts To Return Home
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Belgian court of appeal on Sunday ordered the return to Egypt of 80 artefacts stolen and smuggled out of the country. The artefacts were discovered in April 2010 when customs officials at Brussels airport caught an Egyptian...
- Two Reliefs Stolen From Saqqara Recovered
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Police have succeeded in recovering two well-preserved limestone reliefs stolen in 1986 by an international antiquities smuggling gang from Saqqara archaeological storehouses....
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Alleged Artifact Thieves Referred For Military Trial
Al Masry Al Youm The Tourism and Antiquities Police referred two suspects accused of stealing artifacts from the Egyptian Museum for military trial, according to an Interior Ministry statement released Monday. The statement said the antiquities police,...
- Amarna Princess Recovered
The Egyptian police have recovered the Amarna princess statuette stolen during the sacking of the Malawi museum this past summer. The statuette is one of the most important pieces stolen from that museum and one of about 800 artifacts recovered out of...