Egypt
- Restoring History
The National (Nabil Shawkat) Immortality is a messy business. If you don’t believe it, ask Ramadan Badry Hussein, the man keeping track of thousands of monuments in Egypt. Only five years ago, cleaning men stole three ancient statues from the basement...
- Cairo Museum Basement To Be Opened To Visitors
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1514&format=html"The basement of the Egyptian Museum will be opened to visitors. Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, declared that a contract has been signed with a state-owned...
- Arrests In 'museum Curse' Case
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/764/eg4.htm"It seemed that the Egyptian Museum's basement had been afflicted with the Pharaohs' curse. Three weeks ago, when the Giza archaeological inspectors asked for the return of 14 objects placed on loan with...
- Found And Lost
http://tinyurl.com/9xgjz More about the artefacts missing in the Cairo Museum: "To recover the lost artifacts—statues approximately 20cm tall—Hawass appointed a committee of “seven to eight” archaeologists to search the colossal basement. He claims...
- Cairo Museum Catalogued
The basement of the Cairo museum is being catalogued and here is another article. http://www.gadling.com/2009/07/26/major-archaeological-discovery-in-egypt-in-museum-basement/...
Egypt
Unearthing the Museum's Basement
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/751/hr2.htm
Zahi Hawass on the subject of one of the world's most sought-after basements: "Recently I have become interested in digging in a new place, a place without sand -- the basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. There is a maze of corridors lying under the museum. For decades, no one knew what was hidden down there: boxes of all sorts of treasures discovered by foreign and Egyptian expeditions were brought in and stored over the years, without proper recording of the artefacts. There were objects of stone and wood, mummies, and even objects made of precious metal. But no one knew exactly what was there. It became known among scholars that if anything was sent to the basement it would be lost forever". Quite an admission. See the Al Ahram Dig Days item for more.
- Restoring History
The National (Nabil Shawkat) Immortality is a messy business. If you don’t believe it, ask Ramadan Badry Hussein, the man keeping track of thousands of monuments in Egypt. Only five years ago, cleaning men stole three ancient statues from the basement...
- Cairo Museum Basement To Be Opened To Visitors
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1514&format=html"The basement of the Egyptian Museum will be opened to visitors. Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, declared that a contract has been signed with a state-owned...
- Arrests In 'museum Curse' Case
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/764/eg4.htm"It seemed that the Egyptian Museum's basement had been afflicted with the Pharaohs' curse. Three weeks ago, when the Giza archaeological inspectors asked for the return of 14 objects placed on loan with...
- Found And Lost
http://tinyurl.com/9xgjz More about the artefacts missing in the Cairo Museum: "To recover the lost artifacts—statues approximately 20cm tall—Hawass appointed a committee of “seven to eight” archaeologists to search the colossal basement. He claims...
- Cairo Museum Catalogued
The basement of the Cairo museum is being catalogued and here is another article. http://www.gadling.com/2009/07/26/major-archaeological-discovery-in-egypt-in-museum-basement/...