Egypt
United states authorities have broken up a smuggling ring which involved a dealer in Dubai and a Greco-Roman sarcophagus. Federal agents found the sarcophagus in Manhattan antiques dealers Virginia home.
The New york dealer was released on $250 000 bail.
- International Smugglers Increasingly Target Egypt's Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm (Mete Eriksen) The dismantlement of an international mummy and artifact smuggling ring by US authorities in July raised alarms about the status of stolen Egyptian artifacts in transnational black markets. The daily newspaper Metro-New...
- Antiquities Black Market Revealed
LiveScience (Charles Q. Choi) The rescue of an ancient Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus this month from alleged smugglers in New York — the first time authorities say an international artifacts' smuggling ring was dismantled within the United States...
- Smuggled Artefacts Seized By Us Authorities
Reuters Africa A set of 2,000-year-old sarcophagi and other Egyptian antiquities were smuggled into the United States by a black-market artifacts ring and recovered by U.S. law enforcement agents, officials said on Thursday. Charges unsealed in Brooklyn...
- Alleged Egyptian Antiquities Smuggler Apprehended
Monsters and Critics A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday. 'Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...
Egypt
Smuggling Ring Broken
United states authorities have broken up a smuggling ring which involved a dealer in Dubai and a Greco-Roman sarcophagus. Federal agents found the sarcophagus in Manhattan antiques dealers Virginia home.
The New york dealer was released on $250 000 bail.
- International Smugglers Increasingly Target Egypt's Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm (Mete Eriksen) The dismantlement of an international mummy and artifact smuggling ring by US authorities in July raised alarms about the status of stolen Egyptian artifacts in transnational black markets. The daily newspaper Metro-New...
- Antiquities Black Market Revealed
LiveScience (Charles Q. Choi) The rescue of an ancient Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus this month from alleged smugglers in New York — the first time authorities say an international artifacts' smuggling ring was dismantled within the United States...
- Smuggled Artefacts Seized By Us Authorities
Reuters Africa A set of 2,000-year-old sarcophagi and other Egyptian antiquities were smuggled into the United States by a black-market artifacts ring and recovered by U.S. law enforcement agents, officials said on Thursday. Charges unsealed in Brooklyn...
- Alleged Egyptian Antiquities Smuggler Apprehended
Monsters and Critics A Lebanese antiquities dealer was arrested in Bulgaria after being charged with smuggling stolen ancient Egyptian artifacts, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) said on Thursday. 'Ali Abu Taam was accused of smuggling...
- Bulgaria Say's No To Extradition
The Lebanese dealer convicted in absentia in Egypt for smuggling will not be handed over to Egyptian authorities. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE50J04H20090120...