Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/763/chrncls.htm
"One part of Egypt that perhaps to this day gets scant attention -- the vast desert stretches of the Sinai -- was in the news in the summer of 1937 following the theft of buried antiquities and a subsequent court trial which rendered a surprising verdict. Professor Yunan Labib Rizk follows the case of the stolen goods". See the above URL for the story.
- Ministry Of State For Antiquities Denies Hawass' Escape Rumours
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Today, the criminal court of Agouza acquitted Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass of the charge issued for not implementing the administration court ruling to put on halt all procedures being taken to rent the cafeteria...
- Phoenix Ancient Art Clarifies Misleading Article Regarding Ali Aboutaam
PR Newswire Phoenix Ancient Art has stated that the information published by the Thomson Reuters news agency regarding Mr. Ali Aboutaam, dated January 15, 2009, is incorrect. The story stated that Mr. Aboutaam was under arrest in Sofia, Bulgaria. In fact,...
- Reshuffle
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/775/eg20.htmFollowing the elections, President Hosni Mubarak ordered Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to form a new cabinet. The reshuffle leaves the Minister for Culture (and minister responsible for the Supreme Council of Antiquities),...
- Smuggled Artefact Problems - The Getty And Elsewhere
http://tinyurl.com/8lggk "The Getty case is just a slice of an illicit global trade in antiquities that stretches from the Egyptian desert to Chinese tombs to Peruvian monuments, and pulls in some of the most- respected names in art and academia". An...
- Save Central Sinai
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr1.htm "The Supreme Council of Antiquities has launched an LE10 million project to upgrade the temple of Serabit Al-Khadem and the nearby turquoise mines in Sinai for what is loosely called "safari tourism". The vagueness...
Egypt
The other Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/763/chrncls.htm
"One part of Egypt that perhaps to this day gets scant attention -- the vast desert stretches of the Sinai -- was in the news in the summer of 1937 following the theft of buried antiquities and a subsequent court trial which rendered a surprising verdict. Professor Yunan Labib Rizk follows the case of the stolen goods". See the above URL for the story.
- Ministry Of State For Antiquities Denies Hawass' Escape Rumours
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Today, the criminal court of Agouza acquitted Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass of the charge issued for not implementing the administration court ruling to put on halt all procedures being taken to rent the cafeteria...
- Phoenix Ancient Art Clarifies Misleading Article Regarding Ali Aboutaam
PR Newswire Phoenix Ancient Art has stated that the information published by the Thomson Reuters news agency regarding Mr. Ali Aboutaam, dated January 15, 2009, is incorrect. The story stated that Mr. Aboutaam was under arrest in Sofia, Bulgaria. In fact,...
- Reshuffle
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/775/eg20.htmFollowing the elections, President Hosni Mubarak ordered Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to form a new cabinet. The reshuffle leaves the Minister for Culture (and minister responsible for the Supreme Council of Antiquities),...
- Smuggled Artefact Problems - The Getty And Elsewhere
http://tinyurl.com/8lggk "The Getty case is just a slice of an illicit global trade in antiquities that stretches from the Egyptian desert to Chinese tombs to Peruvian monuments, and pulls in some of the most- respected names in art and academia". An...
- Save Central Sinai
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr1.htm "The Supreme Council of Antiquities has launched an LE10 million project to upgrade the temple of Serabit Al-Khadem and the nearby turquoise mines in Sinai for what is loosely called "safari tourism". The vagueness...