Egypt
Artifacts stolen after the 2011 revolution including Third intermediate coffins and Middle Kingdom models are set to return to Egypt next month. Artifacts returning also include a mask and a number of pieces of cartonage coverings from late period mummies.
- 68 Artefacts Seized In Minya
Egypt Independent (Saeed Nafea) The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner’s house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred...
- Repatriating Egyptian Antiquities
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7622 "In 2003 Hawass set up The Department for Retrieving Stolen Artifacts to trace stolen artifacts. Head of the department Ibrahim Adel Meguid, said the department was able to return about 5,000 monuments...
- 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...
- Coming Home From America
This has certainly been a year of international co-operation in the preservation of Egypt's heritage, though causes of the industry remain at odds with the intellectual desire to preserve everything in a museum drawer or others acquiring beautiful...
- Five More Objects Returned To Cairo Museum
Five more objects stolen from the Cairo museum have been recovered including a bronze scepter head and four statuettes of gods. Four of the bronzes are in good condition however a bronze of an Apis bull was returned broken though the report says it can...
Egypt
Stolen Artifacts Return
Artifacts stolen after the 2011 revolution including Third intermediate coffins and Middle Kingdom models are set to return to Egypt next month. Artifacts returning also include a mask and a number of pieces of cartonage coverings from late period mummies.
- 68 Artefacts Seized In Minya
Egypt Independent (Saeed Nafea) The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner’s house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred...
- Repatriating Egyptian Antiquities
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7622 "In 2003 Hawass set up The Department for Retrieving Stolen Artifacts to trace stolen artifacts. Head of the department Ibrahim Adel Meguid, said the department was able to return about 5,000 monuments...
- 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...
- Coming Home From America
This has certainly been a year of international co-operation in the preservation of Egypt's heritage, though causes of the industry remain at odds with the intellectual desire to preserve everything in a museum drawer or others acquiring beautiful...
- Five More Objects Returned To Cairo Museum
Five more objects stolen from the Cairo museum have been recovered including a bronze scepter head and four statuettes of gods. Four of the bronzes are in good condition however a bronze of an Apis bull was returned broken though the report says it can...