Egypt
MSNBC (Sourced from Associated Press)
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- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
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Egypt State Information Service A follow up to the story about the Predynastic vessels from Maadi which were smuggled out of the country by a U.S. pilot. Zahi Hawass is due to meet with U.S. officials to discuss matters further, but it seems extremely...
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- Egyptian Delegation To Inspect Stolen Antiquities
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Egypt
U.S. pilot charged in stolen Egyptian art case
MSNBC (Sourced from Associated Press)
An Army helicopter pilot faces charges of selling stolen Egyptian antiquities dating to 3000 B.C., federal prosecutors said Wednesday.Chief Warrant Officer Edward George Johnson was arrested Tuesday in Alabama on charges of transportation of stolen property and wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said.
Johnson, 44, was stationed in Cairo in September 2002 when about 370 artifacts were stolen from the Ma'adi Museum near Cairo, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. The items, dating to 3000 B.C. or earlier, had come from an archaeological site excavated in the 1920s and 1930s.
See the above for more details.
Also on:
NY Daily News (with a photograph of one of the Maadi vessels)
The Student Operated Press
Reuters
New York Times
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- 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...
- Egypt Asks Us To Return 80 Stolen Artifacts
Egypt State Information Service A follow up to the story about the Predynastic vessels from Maadi which were smuggled out of the country by a U.S. pilot. Zahi Hawass is due to meet with U.S. officials to discuss matters further, but it seems extremely...
- Maadi Vessel Smuggler To Face Charges
Javno A U.S. Army helicopter pilot once stationed in Cairo will face charges of selling dozens of stolen Egyptian antiquities to a Texas art dealer, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Edward Johnson was arrested on Tuesday and is scheduled to appear...
- Egyptian Delegation To Inspect Stolen Antiquities
Egypt State Information Service The official response by Zahi Hawass and the SCA to the information that stolen artefacts from the important prehistoric site of Maadi (in the Cairo suburbs) have been recovered in the U.S., and a pilot has been arrested...