Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With two photos.
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Egypt
Stolen ancient artefacts recovered
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With two photos.
Following comprehensive investigations carried out by the Tourism and Antiquities Police (TAP), a collection of missing ancient Egyptian artefacts were recovered buried by antiquity smugglers in the desert south of Saqqara necropolis.
According to a release submitted by TAP, the restituted collection includes of an anthropoid painted wood sarcophagus, two wooden statues depicting the god Ptah and seven pieces of inscribed limestone which were parts of a false door.
- Nine Limestone Reliefs Are Back Home From Spain
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The stolen artefacts were missing for over a decade until they turned up in Barcelona After a thirteen year absence, nine ancient Egyptian limestone reliefs were returned to their original place in the Saqqara...
- Two Reliefs Stolen From Saqqara Recovered
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photo. The Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Police have succeeded in recovering two well-preserved limestone reliefs stolen in 1986 by an international antiquities smuggling gang from Saqqara archaeological storehouses....
- More Re Missing Artefacts Found
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) Today, with the help of Egypt’s armed forces and the tourism and antiquities police, five artefactes from 42 objects missing from the Egyptian Museum were recovered. The five items include four bronze objects depicting...
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Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) An Egyptian antiquities collection at the …stergötlands Country Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, will soon be back in its homeland, Nevine El-Aref reports. After being on display for almost five decades at the …stergötlands...
- Antiquity Smugglers Arrested
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