Egypt
Upcoming auctions
Sothebys, New York
4th June 2009
Christies, New York
3rd June 2009
Upcoming auctions which include Egyptian antiquities amongst the items for sale.
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Antiquities Market: Celtic Armadillos, Nilotic Fish, And A Bright Blue Shabti
Maine Antique Digest (Ian McKay) The market in antiquities is one that continues to hold up strongly in the face of what remain difficult economic times for some markets, not to mention stricter export laws and regulations on what can and cannot be sold....
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Tutankhamun To Visit New York
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The New York Times reported on June 3, 2009 that an expanded version of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs will appear in the 60,000-square-foot basement of the newspaper's former mid-Manhattan location in Spring...
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Tourism: Auctioned Tourist Development Land Causes Concern
Egyptian Gazette (Salah Attia) N.B. The story will expire shortly on the above URL. Auctions of land prepared for tourist development projects caused more worries in the tourist sector this week. Tourist experts and leading investors, who were polled...
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Repatriating Egyptian Antiquities
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7622 "In 2003 Hawass set up The Department for Retrieving Stolen Artifacts to trace stolen artifacts. Head of the department Ibrahim Adel Meguid, said the department was able to return about 5,000 monuments...
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October Auction And Viewing At Christies
http://www.christies.com/departments/calendar.asp?DID=6 This Christies auction, billed as "Fine Antiquities including a Collection from Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire" is scheduled for 18th October 2005. There is a photograph of the very fine head of Sakhmet...
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