Egypt
- Parcels Containing Artefacts Seized At Cairo Airport
Ahram Online Three tons of valuables belonging to escaped Egyptian tycoon Hussein Salem, charged with corruption in connection with the export of natural gas to Israel, were confiscated at Cairo Airport yesterday evening Airport Customs stopped yesterday...
- Addressing The Call For Objects To Be Repatriated
The Daily Mail, Islamabad You will need to scroll down to the second story on the page. HEADS are in the news this week. China has demanded the return of two 18th century bronze animal heads that belonged to the late French fashion designer Yves Saint...
- Egypt - The Scale Of The Returns
Safe Corner (David Gill) David Gill has highlighted the recent Al Ahram article by Nevine El-Aref on the Safe Corner blog, (the online community of the non-profit organization SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone), and has added a very useful pie chart...
- 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...
- Details Re The Smuggling And Australian Recovery Of Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/9f4ww This article contains more details not only about the artefacts themselves, but about how they were recovered and who smuggled them originally: "The artefacts will be used in the case against 10 Egyptians, including three top...
Egypt
Smuggled Saharan artefacts seized in Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314481.stm
"French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an 'archaeological treasure', the objects were thought to be on their way to private US buyers.
Experts say most of the items are from the Neolithic period, but some may be up to one million years old. The artefacts are thought to have been taken from archaeological sites on the edge of the Sahara desert. The 669 items - 601 stones and 68 bracelets - were confiscated on 19 January at Charles de Gaulle airport and included axe heads, flintstones and stone rings. Most of the artefacts date from a few thousand years BC. But others are from the Acheulean period, between one million years and 200,000 years old, and from the Middle Stone Age (200,000 years BC to 20,000 years BC)."
Experts say most of the items are from the Neolithic period, but some may be up to one million years old. The artefacts are thought to have been taken from archaeological sites on the edge of the Sahara desert. The 669 items - 601 stones and 68 bracelets - were confiscated on 19 January at Charles de Gaulle airport and included axe heads, flintstones and stone rings. Most of the artefacts date from a few thousand years BC. But others are from the Acheulean period, between one million years and 200,000 years old, and from the Middle Stone Age (200,000 years BC to 20,000 years BC)."
- Parcels Containing Artefacts Seized At Cairo Airport
Ahram Online Three tons of valuables belonging to escaped Egyptian tycoon Hussein Salem, charged with corruption in connection with the export of natural gas to Israel, were confiscated at Cairo Airport yesterday evening Airport Customs stopped yesterday...
- Addressing The Call For Objects To Be Repatriated
The Daily Mail, Islamabad You will need to scroll down to the second story on the page. HEADS are in the news this week. China has demanded the return of two 18th century bronze animal heads that belonged to the late French fashion designer Yves Saint...
- Egypt - The Scale Of The Returns
Safe Corner (David Gill) David Gill has highlighted the recent Al Ahram article by Nevine El-Aref on the Safe Corner blog, (the online community of the non-profit organization SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone), and has added a very useful pie chart...
- 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...
- Details Re The Smuggling And Australian Recovery Of Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/9f4ww This article contains more details not only about the artefacts themselves, but about how they were recovered and who smuggled them originally: "The artefacts will be used in the case against 10 Egyptians, including three top...