Egypt
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- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- Ongoing Dispute Over St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/fdzqz (hamiltonspectator.com)The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask, unless it sees more proof it belongs to Egypt. The museum will not meet a May 15 deadline set by Egyptian antiquities authorities to return...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...
- Not To Forget Kanefernefer
The mask from the St. Louis Art Museum is from the Egypt's 19th dynasty ca. 1250bce and is its star attraction.The mask was found at Sakkara in 1952, the Cairo museum went looking for it in 1959 and found it missing from its holdings. Kanefernefer's...
Egypt
Short update re the St Louis Mask
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=92858
"Nefer's mask was purchased by the museum in 1998 for nearly a half a million dollars, but now the Egyptian government wants it back. 'About 10 days ago, we received a letter from Dr. Zahi Hawass, who is head of the Supreme Council on Egyptian Requisition, that the mask, which is in the museum's collection, is stolen from Egypt,' says Brent Benjamin, Director of the St. Louis Art Museum. 'That's a very serious charge,' says Benjamin.Benjamin says he has sent Egyptian officials proof that the mask was carefully researched before the purchase."
For more about the mask, see the above web page
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- Ongoing Dispute Over St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/fdzqz (hamiltonspectator.com)The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask, unless it sees more proof it belongs to Egypt. The museum will not meet a May 15 deadline set by Egyptian antiquities authorities to return...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...
- Not To Forget Kanefernefer
The mask from the St. Louis Art Museum is from the Egypt's 19th dynasty ca. 1250bce and is its star attraction.The mask was found at Sakkara in 1952, the Cairo museum went looking for it in 1959 and found it missing from its holdings. Kanefernefer's...