Egypt
Repatriation: Egypt and others
Monsters and Critics (Shabtai Gold)
Egypt's antiquities chief announced plans on Wednesday for a conference to help coordinate the strategy of African and Asian countries who had artifacts 'stolen' from them.
'At the end of March we will hold a conference to meet with others who suffered like us from stolen artifacts and to discuss how to help all of us in efforts to return the stolen artifacts,' said Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities.
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145 Islamic Artifacts Stolen From Auc
bikyamasr Egypt`s Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said on Tuesday that around 145 Islamic artifacts were stolen from the American University in Cairo in March. He said in a statement that along with the artifacts, 50 other replicas were...
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More Re Repatriation Conference
Egypt State Information Service I've trawled through the various media reports on the subject of the conference and it is a real shame that we only hear the Egyptian point of view in any of the reports. Obviously Hawass took centre stage because it...
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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...
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Hawass Returns Stolen Antiquity To Iraq
Egypt Daily Star News Supreme Council of Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawas announced that he will return a stolen statue of a Mesopotamian woman to her home country in Iraq at a press conference in the Egyptian Museum on Sunday. “We sent many letters to...
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Conference On Stolen Artefacts To Be Organized
http://www.gom.com.eg/gazette/home/detail_2_22.shtml"EGYPT will start making arrangements later in the year for an international conference to urge for the recovery of stolen antiquities, according to a senior official. 'We will contact countries...
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