Egypt
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=59274
"Berlin: Police have seized dozens of artefacts from ancient Egypt at a freight depot here after a tip off from Egyptian diplomats.The treasures were being consigned from Switzerland to the US after being sold for two million dollars. They were seized at the end of October but this was not made public at the time.Prosecutors have since established that the artefacts left Egypt in the 1970s".
This is the complete bulletin on the New Kerala website.
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- Smuggled Saharan Artefacts Seized In Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314481.stm"French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an 'archaeological treasure',...
- German Probe Into Sarcophagus Claimed By Egypt
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14023735"The Berlin state prosecutor has opened an inquiry into the origin of an Egyptian sarcophagus from the Pharaonic period, recently seized in Germany and which Cairo wants returned, his spokesman said on Thursday...
- Three Ancient Pieces Seized In Menia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o151224q.htm "Monuments and tourism police seized in Menia governorate three rare ancient pieces dating back to the pharaoh era including a human head made of alabaster, from a farmer and a grocer before they sold...
- Looting Mummies
Four Pharaonic era mummies have recently been seized by Egyptian police along with a coffin and statuettes from an illegal digging. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiaeI6f2SlyAUPRg-da9o2mnpAJw...
Egypt
Egyptology treasures seized at freight depot
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=59274
"Berlin: Police have seized dozens of artefacts from ancient Egypt at a freight depot here after a tip off from Egyptian diplomats.The treasures were being consigned from Switzerland to the US after being sold for two million dollars. They were seized at the end of October but this was not made public at the time.Prosecutors have since established that the artefacts left Egypt in the 1970s".
This is the complete bulletin on the New Kerala website.
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- Smuggled Saharan Artefacts Seized In Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314481.stm"French customs officials say they have seized more than 650 ancient artefacts smuggled from Mali in one of the largest such finds at a Paris airport. Described as an 'archaeological treasure',...
- German Probe Into Sarcophagus Claimed By Egypt
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14023735"The Berlin state prosecutor has opened an inquiry into the origin of an Egyptian sarcophagus from the Pharaonic period, recently seized in Germany and which Cairo wants returned, his spokesman said on Thursday...
- Three Ancient Pieces Seized In Menia
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o151224q.htm "Monuments and tourism police seized in Menia governorate three rare ancient pieces dating back to the pharaoh era including a human head made of alabaster, from a farmer and a grocer before they sold...
- Looting Mummies
Four Pharaonic era mummies have recently been seized by Egyptian police along with a coffin and statuettes from an illegal digging. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiaeI6f2SlyAUPRg-da9o2mnpAJw...