Egypt
- Repatriation: More Re Rosetta
Daily Times, Pakistan Egypt will host a conference in April for countries demanding the return of their antiquities, stolen but on display in museums round the world, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said. The conference will “discuss the question...
- Museum Watchdog
Archaeology Magazine () An interview with David Gill is now available on Archaeology's website. David Gill, a professor of archaeology at the University of Wales Swansea, is the author of a number of studies on the antiquities market. With his colleague...
- Repatriating Artefacts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060718/cm_csm/eantiquities"Who is the rightful owner of ancient artifacts – the famed Elgin marbles taken from the Parthenon, say, or the elegant Nefertiti head? Is it the museums and collectors housing them, or the lands...
- Who Owns The Past?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm "Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was...
- Met Will Return Disputed Art To Italy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aA7bnWw4c9DQAn update on Bloomberg site regarding claims for the return of illegally sold artefacts, highlighted by the Italian legal position taken against the John Paul Getty Museum: "By holding...
Egypt
Repatriating disputed antiquities
http://www.archaeology.org/0611/etc/president.html
An article by Jane C. Waldbaum, President of the Archaeological Institute of America on the Archaeology Magazine website: "By repatriating disputed antiquities, museums will be able to bring even more of the ancient world to the public. The restitution of antiquities to their countries of origin by museums has been much in the news recently. The government of Italy has claimed--and the Metropolitan Museum in New York is giving back--the famed Euphronios krater and a hoard of silver objects probably looted from Morgantina in Sicily; the Getty Museum in Malibu is returning "a number of very significant objects" to Italy and two ancient sculptures to Greece; and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts recently announced it will return several pieces to Italy. Greece is making additional claims on these same museums, and Egypt is demanding that the St. Louis Museum of Art return the 3,000-year-old mummy mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer, a noblewoman whose tomb at Saqqara was excavated in the 1950s.
What's going on? Are U.S. museums the only targets of countries requesting the return of artifacts, as claimed by the Met's director Philippe de Montebello in a speech to the National Press Club last April? In fact, claims for restitution of artifacts are being leveled at many museums outside the United States."
What's going on? Are U.S. museums the only targets of countries requesting the return of artifacts, as claimed by the Met's director Philippe de Montebello in a speech to the National Press Club last April? In fact, claims for restitution of artifacts are being leveled at many museums outside the United States."
See the above for the full story.
- Repatriation: More Re Rosetta
Daily Times, Pakistan Egypt will host a conference in April for countries demanding the return of their antiquities, stolen but on display in museums round the world, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said. The conference will “discuss the question...
- Museum Watchdog
Archaeology Magazine () An interview with David Gill is now available on Archaeology's website. David Gill, a professor of archaeology at the University of Wales Swansea, is the author of a number of studies on the antiquities market. With his colleague...
- Repatriating Artefacts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060718/cm_csm/eantiquities"Who is the rightful owner of ancient artifacts – the famed Elgin marbles taken from the Parthenon, say, or the elegant Nefertiti head? Is it the museums and collectors housing them, or the lands...
- Who Owns The Past?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm "Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was...
- Met Will Return Disputed Art To Italy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aA7bnWw4c9DQAn update on Bloomberg site regarding claims for the return of illegally sold artefacts, highlighted by the Italian legal position taken against the John Paul Getty Museum: "By holding...