Egypt
- 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...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- 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/...
- In The Cairo Museums Basement
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Egypt
Visits to Tutankhamun & update on Cairo Museum basement
http://tinyurl.com/dkevf (Egyptian State Information Service)
Some 200,000 Americans visited Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs exhibition in Fort Luaderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week. Florida is the second leg of the exhibition tour which covers four states. Some one million people are expected to visit the exhibition during its display in Florida, which will last for four months. . . .
Meanwhile, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new find during rejuvenations in the Egyptian Museum basement, where they found a sarcophagus of priests of Amun, the Egyptian god of life, represented as a man with a ram's head. The antique, a report of which was referred to Culture Minister Farouq Hosni, was found by chance when the museum officials were organizing the basement that houses several unregistered artifacts. Archaeologists discovered scores of boxes that have not been opened since the past century. Antiquities inside the basement date back to the centuries before Christ and amount to nearly 600 sarcophagi and 170 mummies. The Supreme Council of Antiquities started taking stock of the ancient pieces inside the basement".
Some 200,000 Americans visited Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs exhibition in Fort Luaderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week. Florida is the second leg of the exhibition tour which covers four states. Some one million people are expected to visit the exhibition during its display in Florida, which will last for four months. . . .
Meanwhile, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new find during rejuvenations in the Egyptian Museum basement, where they found a sarcophagus of priests of Amun, the Egyptian god of life, represented as a man with a ram's head. The antique, a report of which was referred to Culture Minister Farouq Hosni, was found by chance when the museum officials were organizing the basement that houses several unregistered artifacts. Archaeologists discovered scores of boxes that have not been opened since the past century. Antiquities inside the basement date back to the centuries before Christ and amount to nearly 600 sarcophagi and 170 mummies. The Supreme Council of Antiquities started taking stock of the ancient pieces inside the basement".
- 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...
- Trading In Our History
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/3/ This piece on Al Ahram weekly's website by Mohammed el-Ezabi, highlighting the problems of antiquities theft, is reproduced in full due to the fact that it will not be archived on the Al Ahram website: "One...
- 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/...
- In The Cairo Museums Basement
...