Showing posts with label Egyptian antiquities looting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egyptian antiquities looting. Show all posts
July 7, 2020

Ashraf Omar Eldarir, A US Citizen, indicted for smuggling Egyptian antiquities

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (HSI) - Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit within the U.S. Department o...
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January 21, 2020

Cairo Criminal Court in Abdin convicts former Italian diplomat for antiquities smuggling

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Image Credit Left: https://www.radiolfc.net/tag/m-skakal/ Image Credit Right:  Italian Carabinieri Today the Cairo Criminal Court in A...
January 20, 2020

Trial begins with the testimony of witnesses in the case against Raouf Boutros Ghali, while Egypt continues to seek the arrest of Italy’s former honorary consul in Luxor, Ladislav Otakar Skakal

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Image Credit Al Dostor News During a court hearing on Sunday, January 19, the Cairo Criminal Court of Abdin, headed by Counselor Mohame...
September 17, 2019

Egyptian prosecutor requests that former honorary consul of Italy be placed on INTERPOL’s red notice list

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Image Credit:  https://www.radiolfc.net/tag/m-skakal/ Today, Egyptian Attorney General Nabil Ahmed Sadek ordered the arrest of Italy...
February 20, 2019

Egypt-Italy Antiquities Smuggling Case: Detention extended for Raouf Boutros Ghali

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As reported on February 14, 2019 Egypt's Prosecutor General, Nabil Sadek, previously ordered 15 days of precautionary custody pend...
February 18, 2019

Arrests made in charges of smuggling Egyptian antiquities in diplomatic bags to Italy

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On March 14, 2018 , Italy's Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, better known as the Carabinieri T.P.C., i...
February 17, 2019

The Metropolitan Museum, Christophe Kunicki and a Luxor dealer names Tawadros: More questions than answers on recent Egyptian acquisitions

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In researching details related to the acquisition and current restitution of the 1st century Egyptian B.C.E mummiform coffin, inscribed in ...
February 16, 2019

Restitution: Met Museum agrees to return its 1st century B.C.E mummiform coffin, inscribed in the name of Nedjemankh, to Egypt

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The Metropolitan Museum has agreed to return its 1st century B.C.E gold-sheathed mummiform coffin, inscribed in the name of the high-rank...
June 29, 2018

Italy Returns Trafficked Artifacts to the Archaeological Departments of the Ministry of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt

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In a ceremony held in Rome on June 27, 2018 at the headquarters of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, the ...
March 19, 2017

One well documented theft = three separate seizures - Egypt's successes in curbing the sale of a stolen ancient objects

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Image Credit: Antiquities Repatriation Sector of the Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt Four years after being stolen and then trafficked i...
February 22, 2016

Second Sentry guard shot at incident at the Deir el-Bersha archaeological site has died

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Egyptian news wires have reported that Ali Khalaf Shāker, (علي خلف شاكر), the second site guard protecting the Deir el-Bersha archaeologica...
February 21, 2016

Sentry guards killed at Deir el-Bersha archaeological site identified, Fundraiser established for their families.

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The Belgian archaeological mission from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , which has been working at Deir el-Barsha in Middle Egypt since...
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February 20, 2016

Notice: Two sentry guards killed at the archaeological site at Deir el-Bersha in Egypt

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ARTICLE UPDATED - 22 February 2016 Two archaeological site guards on duty at the archaeological site at at Deir el-Bersha in Egypt have...