Egypt
The New York Sun (Bradley Hope)
- Stolen Egyptian Artifacts Found At Auction House
Real Clear Arts (Judith H. Dobrzynski) Well, that was quick: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today that it has recovered seven of the eight ancient Egyptian artifacts that were stolen from the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam in the...
- Home From The Range
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A large number of pre-historic artefacts stolen from a Maadi storehouse have returned to Egypt, as Nevine El-Aref reports. After touring around various American states, 79 pre-dynastic artefacts, including plain stone...
- Restored Artifacts To Be Put In Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has decided to put recently restored stolen antiquities from the United States at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr Zahi Hawwas said that...
- Illicitly Removed Artefacts Returned To Egypt On Saturday
Mathaba Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said a stolen 4,500-year-old Egyptian relic that was to be included in a New York Christie's auction last year had come back home on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported Sunday. See the above...
- More Re Duck-shaped Vessels Retrieved By Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/23opew (sis.gov.eg) "Egypt has succeeded in retrieving two food alabaster boxes in the shape of ducks which had been excavated by Dr. Dieter Arnold in 1979 from the pyramid complex of Amenemhat III at Dahshur then smuggled abroad. These...
Egypt
Stolen Egyptian artefacts handed over to consulate
The New York Sun (Bradley Hope)
A stolen4,500-year-old Egyptian relic that was to be included in a Christie's auction last year was returned to the consulate yesterday and will soon head to Egypt, officials said. The duck-shaped, alabaster vessel was last year spotted on Christie's auction list by Interpol, which notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In October, investigators obtained a seizure warrant and Christie's turned it over.
The consul general of Egypt to New York, Sherif El-Kholi, received the vessel in a ceremony early yesterday. "Today our two countries send a message to those who mistakenly perceive cultural theft as a low-risk/high-return business," the acting director of the ICE New York field office, Salvatore Dalessandro, said. "National artifacts and cultural treasures are not for sale to the highest bidder."
The vessel and a similar piece were excavated in 1979 at the pyramid of Amenemhat III, the sixth ruler of Egypt's 12th dynasty. An Egyptologist with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dieter Arnold, was the archaeologist who discovered them. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.
- Stolen Egyptian Artifacts Found At Auction House
Real Clear Arts (Judith H. Dobrzynski) Well, that was quick: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today that it has recovered seven of the eight ancient Egyptian artifacts that were stolen from the Bijbels Museum in Amsterdam in the...
- Home From The Range
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A large number of pre-historic artefacts stolen from a Maadi storehouse have returned to Egypt, as Nevine El-Aref reports. After touring around various American states, 79 pre-dynastic artefacts, including plain stone...
- Restored Artifacts To Be Put In Egyptian Museum
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has decided to put recently restored stolen antiquities from the United States at the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr Zahi Hawwas said that...
- Illicitly Removed Artefacts Returned To Egypt On Saturday
Mathaba Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said a stolen 4,500-year-old Egyptian relic that was to be included in a New York Christie's auction last year had come back home on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported Sunday. See the above...
- More Re Duck-shaped Vessels Retrieved By Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/23opew (sis.gov.eg) "Egypt has succeeded in retrieving two food alabaster boxes in the shape of ducks which had been excavated by Dr. Dieter Arnold in 1979 from the pyramid complex of Amenemhat III at Dahshur then smuggled abroad. These...