Egypt
This is another sad article on a theft in Egypt. This time it is Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum which has been the victim of theft of two elaborately embroidered pieces of cloth that were hanging in the mausoleum. The Kiswa as they are known were behind thick glass which the robbers smashed.
In the past a Saudi Arabian princess tried to bribe the elderly guard to take them with her to no avail. The Kiswa may well have been stolen for an interested party? It appears that once again the theft was made easier by the incompetence of Egyptian politicians and bureaucrats.
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Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Three months after the theft of two pieces of a 19th-century embroidered Al-Kaaba Kiswa (the Kaaba cover) from the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfik in Cairo's eastern cemetery, the Ministry of Religious...
- Online: Le Musée Egyptien
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Egypt
Thieves Strike the Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum
In the past a Saudi Arabian princess tried to bribe the elderly guard to take them with her to no avail. The Kiswa may well have been stolen for an interested party? It appears that once again the theft was made easier by the incompetence of Egyptian politicians and bureaucrats.
- Kaaba Kiswa To Be Handed Over To Egypt's Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Three months after the theft of two pieces of a 19th-century embroidered Al-Kaaba Kiswa (the Kaaba cover) from the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfik in Cairo's eastern cemetery, the Ministry of Religious...
- Online: Le Musée Egyptien
DigiZeitschriften Thanks to Chuck Jones and his Ancient World Online blog for this link. Le Musée Egyptien al-Mathaf al-Misrī 1909-1915 Le Musée Egyptien Band 3 1904-1907 Le Musée Egyptien Band 2 ...
- Tuesday's Egyptian
...
- A Year Of Destiny And History
I started this year with The Egyptian Book of the Dead on my mind finding in it a document of incredible abstraction and a sense accomplishment. In the middle of January reports that KV64 had been found in the Valley of Kings was met with...
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"Even though we had allowed people to take pictures in the Valley, people continued to bribe the guards and take cameras into the tombs and use flash." ...