Egypt
- 68 Artefacts Seized In Minya
Egypt Independent (Saeed Nafea) The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner’s house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred...
- Dealers Arrested In Minya Province
Youm7 (Manmoud Abel Rady) Twelve antiques dealers were arrested in Minya province by Police detectives cooperating with the Public Security Authority after they tried to sell artifacts taken from tombs. Major Gen. Ahmed Gamal, assistant Minister of Interior...
- Mexicans Arrested For Stealing Egyptian Antiquities In Chile
Latin American Herald Tribune Two Mexicans were arrested when they were caught trying to steal priceless Egyptian antiquities from an exhibition in Chile’s capital, police said Sunday. Jose Garcia Nielsen, 24, and Alberto Tinajo Cazares, 22, were caught...
- Authorities Arrest Police Officer For Possessing Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested. A security source said they were apprehended on Wahat Road, in 6th of October City in Giza, when a police ambush stopped their car for inspection....
- Egyptian Policeman Arrested
http://tinyurl.com/236ekr (news.monstersandcritics.com) "Antiquities police arrested a police guard in the Egyptian governorate of Qena who attempted to sell four pharaonic statues to a rich Arab for 4 million US dollars, a police source said Friday....
Egypt
Mummy for sale for $10m
http://tinyurl.com/duxox (News24.com)
"Egyptian authorities arrested the owner of a souvenir shop near the pyramids plateau after receiving a tip that he had tried to sell a mummy for $10m, said a source from the Tourism and Antiquities police on Tuesday. Shop owner Ahmed al-Jabari was arrested on Monday after trying to sell items dating to the Pharoanic era, but on inspecting the premises police found no sign of the mummy in a sarcophagus that he had allegedly offered to sell earlier. Police seized from al-Jabari 126 items believed to be Pharaonic antiquities, among them 27 necklaces, the most important of which was made from gold and designed in the shape of a bird, alongside 18 amulets. In another incident of antiquities-related malfeasance, police took into custody on Monday a group of antiquities vendors who were conducting illegal digs in the desert near Minya, 250km south of Cairo. Among those taken into custody was a police officer. The number of those arrested was not being released".
"Egyptian authorities arrested the owner of a souvenir shop near the pyramids plateau after receiving a tip that he had tried to sell a mummy for $10m, said a source from the Tourism and Antiquities police on Tuesday. Shop owner Ahmed al-Jabari was arrested on Monday after trying to sell items dating to the Pharoanic era, but on inspecting the premises police found no sign of the mummy in a sarcophagus that he had allegedly offered to sell earlier. Police seized from al-Jabari 126 items believed to be Pharaonic antiquities, among them 27 necklaces, the most important of which was made from gold and designed in the shape of a bird, alongside 18 amulets. In another incident of antiquities-related malfeasance, police took into custody on Monday a group of antiquities vendors who were conducting illegal digs in the desert near Minya, 250km south of Cairo. Among those taken into custody was a police officer. The number of those arrested was not being released".
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- 68 Artefacts Seized In Minya
Egypt Independent (Saeed Nafea) The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a shop owner’s house Monday . A report was made of the incident and the defendant was referred...
- Dealers Arrested In Minya Province
Youm7 (Manmoud Abel Rady) Twelve antiques dealers were arrested in Minya province by Police detectives cooperating with the Public Security Authority after they tried to sell artifacts taken from tombs. Major Gen. Ahmed Gamal, assistant Minister of Interior...
- Mexicans Arrested For Stealing Egyptian Antiquities In Chile
Latin American Herald Tribune Two Mexicans were arrested when they were caught trying to steal priceless Egyptian antiquities from an exhibition in Chile’s capital, police said Sunday. Jose Garcia Nielsen, 24, and Alberto Tinajo Cazares, 22, were caught...
- Authorities Arrest Police Officer For Possessing Artifacts
Al Masry Al Youm A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested. A security source said they were apprehended on Wahat Road, in 6th of October City in Giza, when a police ambush stopped their car for inspection....
- Egyptian Policeman Arrested
http://tinyurl.com/236ekr (news.monstersandcritics.com) "Antiquities police arrested a police guard in the Egyptian governorate of Qena who attempted to sell four pharaonic statues to a rich Arab for 4 million US dollars, a police source said Friday....