Egypt
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http://tinyurl.com/2fa2wl (actualidad.terra.es) "Una misión de arqueólogos egipcios viajó hoy a Barcelona para estudiar el caso de 17 piezas del Museo Egipcio de la ciudad española sobre las que tienen sospechas en torno a la legalidad de su adquisición....
- Barcelona Statuette Under Suspicion
http://tinyurl.com/h98b2 (cadenaser.com)"El Gobierno egipcio quiere enviar a Barcelona un grupo de expertos en arte y arqueología para examinar una escultura que representa a una mujer, propiedad de la Fundación Jordi Clos, y que se halla expuesta en...
- More On The St Louis Mask
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- Amarna Princess Recovered
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Egypt
Spanish museum said to be exhibiting stolen Egyptian antiquity
http://tinyurl.com/32tf92 (iht.com)
"A Barcelona museum of Egyptian artifacts on Wednesday denied charges that one of its statues may have been stolen from Egypt, a dispute that has prompted the Cairo government to dispatch experts to examine the piece as a possible step toward claiming it.
The limestone artwork — a 43-centimeter-tall (17-inch) depiction of a princess named Nefert — is on display at the Egypt Museum of Barcelona, which says it will return the piece if it turns out to have been stolen.
The charges come from a Spanish Egyptologist who used to work at the museum but left about two years ago, Ildefonso Falcones, the museum's lawyer, said in an interview from Barcelona.
When the archaeologist stopped working at the museum, she demanded payment of damages for alleged psychological abuse on the job. When the museum refused, she went to Egyptian authorities with her suspicions that the statuette was removed from Egypt illegally. . . . Zahi Hawass, general secretary of the Superior Council of Antiquities of the Egyptian government, told The Associated Press in Cairo on Wednesday that he is sending a delegation of three experts to Barcelona next week to examine the statuette.
But he said the issue is whether the piece is authentic, not whether it was stolen, and that if it is real, Egypt will claim it."
The limestone artwork — a 43-centimeter-tall (17-inch) depiction of a princess named Nefert — is on display at the Egypt Museum of Barcelona, which says it will return the piece if it turns out to have been stolen.
The charges come from a Spanish Egyptologist who used to work at the museum but left about two years ago, Ildefonso Falcones, the museum's lawyer, said in an interview from Barcelona.
When the archaeologist stopped working at the museum, she demanded payment of damages for alleged psychological abuse on the job. When the museum refused, she went to Egyptian authorities with her suspicions that the statuette was removed from Egypt illegally. . . . Zahi Hawass, general secretary of the Superior Council of Antiquities of the Egyptian government, told The Associated Press in Cairo on Wednesday that he is sending a delegation of three experts to Barcelona next week to examine the statuette.
But he said the issue is whether the piece is authentic, not whether it was stolen, and that if it is real, Egypt will claim it."
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- More Re Looted Artefact Returned To Iraq
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) At the museum where the statuette was on display to the assembled crowd, Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the SCA told reporters that the return of this statuette embodied the efforts of Egypt and Arab countries to protect...
- More Re Egypt's Aim To Repatriate Items From Barcelona
http://tinyurl.com/2fa2wl (actualidad.terra.es) "Una misión de arqueólogos egipcios viajó hoy a Barcelona para estudiar el caso de 17 piezas del Museo Egipcio de la ciudad española sobre las que tienen sospechas en torno a la legalidad de su adquisición....
- Barcelona Statuette Under Suspicion
http://tinyurl.com/h98b2 (cadenaser.com)"El Gobierno egipcio quiere enviar a Barcelona un grupo de expertos en arte y arqueología para examinar una escultura que representa a una mujer, propiedad de la Fundación Jordi Clos, y que se halla expuesta en...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...
- Amarna Princess Recovered
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