Egypt
Asharq Alwasat (Zahi Hawass)
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- Should The Rosetta Stone Go Back To Egypt?
Looting Matters (David Gill) Anyone who managed to miss the flurry of media interest and discussions in December and January about whether or not the Rosetta Stone should be returned to Egypt can find a summary of the situation on the above page. David...
- Egypt To Retrieve Ancient Statue From Netherlands
African Echo DISCOVERED in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, an ancient funerary statue “could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs,” according to the Cairo government. A recently found, precious “ushabti”, a funerary figurine that was...
- 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 Foils Attempt To Sell 50 Artifacts In Canada
http://tinyurl.com/d59zs "Egypt has managed to foil an attempt to sell 50 Pharaohnic artifacts at the Medousa auction in Canada, said Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni. Secretary of the National Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawwas said that the Council...
Egypt
Satues repatriated from Canada
Asharq Alwasat (Zahi Hawass)
This is perhaps one of the best pieces of news that I have received over the past few months. I am, of course, talking about the return of an ancient statue from Canada to Egypt. The story of this statue begins with the Canadian authorities arresting a foreign traveller arriving in Canada from Egypt. This traveller had a Greek-era statue in his possession which he had bought from an antiques dealer in Egypt. The Canadian authorities contacted Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities [SCA] in order to pursue this case and complete the procedures in order to return this statue back to Egypt. This was around three years ago.
The statue is a marble bust approximately 13 cm in height. The Canadian Heritage Foundation looked after this statue, however after the Canadian authorities confirmed that the traveller in question had no legal right of ownership of this statue, the SCA had the right to claim it in accordance with 1970 UNESCO convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.
- Hemiunu To Be Loaned For Opening Of The Grand Egyptian Museum
Earth Times A German museum confirmed Sunday plans to lend its greatest treasure, the seated statue of Hemiunu, to Egypt for the 2013 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza near Cairo. Doubts over the loan cropped up after Zahi Hawass, the flamboyant...
- Should The Rosetta Stone Go Back To Egypt?
Looting Matters (David Gill) Anyone who managed to miss the flurry of media interest and discussions in December and January about whether or not the Rosetta Stone should be returned to Egypt can find a summary of the situation on the above page. David...
- Egypt To Retrieve Ancient Statue From Netherlands
African Echo DISCOVERED in Saqara in 1985, stolen then auctioned, an ancient funerary statue “could finally go home to Egypt where it belongs,” according to the Cairo government. A recently found, precious “ushabti”, a funerary figurine that was...
- 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 Foils Attempt To Sell 50 Artifacts In Canada
http://tinyurl.com/d59zs "Egypt has managed to foil an attempt to sell 50 Pharaohnic artifacts at the Medousa auction in Canada, said Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni. Secretary of the National Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawwas said that the Council...