Egypt
- Stolen Bronze Relics Returned To Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online With photos. the four retrieved bronze statues Osiris as a child Today the tourism and antiquities police succeeded in retrieving four ancient Egyptian artefacts, two of which were reported missing...
- Official News - Akhenaten Statue Returned, But Bad News From Other Sites
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photo of the returned artefact. Today, I announced that the missing limestone statue of King Akhenaten, the father of Tutankhamun, has been returned to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. This unique statue, which dates from the...
- Wrapping Up Smuggled Goods
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Six months after its establishment, the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities has convened for the first time. Nevine El-Aref attended the meeting. The Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Team To Authenticate Pharaonic Items At Auction
http://tinyurl.com/yr3tly (sis.gov.eg) Another example of Egyptian efforts to repatriate antiquities: Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni will send an archaeological team to the US to authenticate a collection of pharaonic antiquities that were traced to...
- Documentary On Predynastic Life
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "The Department of Pre-Dynastic Monuments, an affiliate of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, will produce a documentary on life of ancient Egyptians who lived in the pre-dynastic era. According to Culture Minister...
Egypt
SCA to retrieve missing antiquities
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/
"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is taking legal steps to retrieve some antiquities, which, according to the Internet, are to be sold at auction halls. SCA Secretary-General Zahi Hawass stated that 13 Web sites were advertising Egyptian antiquities for sale at auction this month, while the total for July was 22 Web sites. The SCA's Archaeological Department has collected all the brochures of these auctions halls and forwarded them to Public Funds Prosecution, said Hawass, adding that an SCA committee has carefully compared the antiquities in the brochures with photos of Egypt's missing antiquities.He added that some of the missing items belonged to an Egyptian trader, while others had gone missing from the museum at Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology and the storehouses of the university's Faculty of Arts, as well as from an archaeological area at Marina, on Egypt's North Coast. The committee has identified the items up for auction as antiquities that have gone missing from Egypt".
This is the entire item on the Egyptian Gazette website.
"The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is taking legal steps to retrieve some antiquities, which, according to the Internet, are to be sold at auction halls. SCA Secretary-General Zahi Hawass stated that 13 Web sites were advertising Egyptian antiquities for sale at auction this month, while the total for July was 22 Web sites. The SCA's Archaeological Department has collected all the brochures of these auctions halls and forwarded them to Public Funds Prosecution, said Hawass, adding that an SCA committee has carefully compared the antiquities in the brochures with photos of Egypt's missing antiquities.He added that some of the missing items belonged to an Egyptian trader, while others had gone missing from the museum at Cairo University's Faculty of Archaeology and the storehouses of the university's Faculty of Arts, as well as from an archaeological area at Marina, on Egypt's North Coast. The committee has identified the items up for auction as antiquities that have gone missing from Egypt".
This is the entire item on the Egyptian Gazette website.
- Stolen Bronze Relics Returned To Egyptian Museum
Ahram Online With photos. the four retrieved bronze statues Osiris as a child Today the tourism and antiquities police succeeded in retrieving four ancient Egyptian artefacts, two of which were reported missing...
- Official News - Akhenaten Statue Returned, But Bad News From Other Sites
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) With photo of the returned artefact. Today, I announced that the missing limestone statue of King Akhenaten, the father of Tutankhamun, has been returned to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. This unique statue, which dates from the...
- Wrapping Up Smuggled Goods
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Six months after its establishment, the National Committee to Return Smuggled Antiquities has convened for the first time. Nevine El-Aref attended the meeting. The Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Team To Authenticate Pharaonic Items At Auction
http://tinyurl.com/yr3tly (sis.gov.eg) Another example of Egyptian efforts to repatriate antiquities: Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni will send an archaeological team to the US to authenticate a collection of pharaonic antiquities that were traced to...
- Documentary On Predynastic Life
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "The Department of Pre-Dynastic Monuments, an affiliate of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, will produce a documentary on life of ancient Egyptians who lived in the pre-dynastic era. According to Culture Minister...