Talking Pyramids

It seems that a delay in payments to the structural repair and reinforcement systems company Cintec, who were carrying out restoration work to the insides of the pyramid of Djoser has resulted in a halt to the restoration work. The newly appointed Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt Mohammad Abdel-Maksoud announced [...]

One of the missing items In yet another strange twist to the ongoing saga of the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, two more of the stolen pieces have turned up. Where? Well, that’s the strange part – they were found INSIDE the museum itself during an inventory check of the museum contents. How [...]

Yesterday Dr Zahi Hawass was sentenced to one year in prison over the Egyptian Museum Gift Shop case. As I reported last month, it was expected that Hawass would receive a one year jail sentence for ignoring an earlier court verdict in June last year that ordered the gift shop not to be opened under [...]

Four more stolen items returned More good news comes from the website of Dr Zahi Hawass today with the return of four more items that were stolen from the Egyptian Museum on the 29th of January. The recently recovered items are as follows: Gilded wooden statue Royal Fan Shabti of Yuya and Thuya Bronze Trumpet [...]

Akhenaten: stolen then returned Today the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) released the official list of all the items that were stolen from the Egyptian museum in Cairo on the 29th of January. Earlier this month an unofficial report leaked out from within the museum in which heads of departments and officials described many missing [...]

Zahi Hawass updated his website just before he resigned with a lengthy list of damage and looting of Egypt’s antiquities. Storage magazines in Egypt Many storage magazines have suffered break-ins; sites from all over Egypt have suffered at the hands of criminals. At Qantara East, in the Sinai, looters broke into the magazine and stole [...]

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo The new Museum gift shop that was looted during the recent revolution in Egypt has been a subject of ongoing controversy.  In official reports from the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Egypt Cultural Heritage Organisation (ECHO) it was stated by the former director of the museum of Egyptian [...]