Topic: Egypt
Looters who raided Egypt's famed museum during the unrest that toppled Hosni Mubarak hauled off a trove of ancient treasures, including a statue of King Tutankhamun, officials said on Sunday.The plundered artefacts include a gilded wooden statue showing the boy pharaoh being ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's pharaonic treasures have survived the unrest almost unscathed and restoration work has started on the few artifacts damaged in a raid on the Egyptian Museum, the head of antiquities said Wednesday.Zahi Hawass said no artifacts had been stolen ...
The Abrams tank points its gun barrel at the crowd of protesters raging against the regime on Cairo's Tahrir Square. Behind it lies the world-famous Egyptian Museum.After a break-in late last month left a number of glass cabinets smashed and 70 precious ...
LONDON (Reuters) - International museums are on high alert for looted Egyptian artifacts and some archaeologists have even offered to fly to the country to help safeguard its ancient treasures, museums said on Wednesday.Egypt has been rocked by an unprecedented nine days ...
Egypt's antiquities chief said Monday that Cairo has demanded that Germany return the 3,400 year-old bust of fabled Queen Nefertiti, 98 years after it was uncovered on the banks of the Nile.Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities head, Zahi Hawass, announced an "official ...
BERLIN/CAIRO (Reuters) - A German foundation rejected Monday an Egyptian request to return the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, a sculpture which draws over one million viewers annually to a Berlin museum.Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) sent the request to the ...
Archaeologists have found fragments of a statue of an ancient god and a pharaoh in a site that once housed ancient Egypt's largest funerary temple, the antiquities council said on Thursday.The fragments, a bust of the god Hapi depicted as a baboon ...
Discovery of 2 ancient statues could lead to greater finds says Egypt antiquities chiefArchaeologists found what may be a trove of 3,400 year old statues on the west bank of the ancient temple city Luxor, said the head of Egypt's antiquities department ...
While modern day Egypt may differ from Ancient Egypt in some ways, one thing that remains the same is how the population remains concentrated around Egypt's main geographical feature - The Nile.. One of the most important aspects in the geography of ...
Various disasters occurred in Crete about the turn of the 18th and 17th centuries bc. It has been suggested that Crete was first conquered by Greeks during this period or by people from Anatolia speaking another Indo-European language called Luwian and related ...
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