Talking Pyramids

The Grand Egyptian Museum The third phase of the construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is moving forward and the GEM Committee is preparing a shortlist of companies from Spain, Brussels, Italy and Egypt proposed in the bid. The third phase of the build includes the construction of the museum’s main exhibition halls, which [...]

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 [...]

The four recovered items More artefacts that were stolen from the Egyptian Museum were recovered yesterday. Four bronze statues were retrieved though only two of these are from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square, Cairo, the place of much controversy over the past four months. News reports are stating that the Tourism and Antiquities Police [...]

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 [...]

Five Museum items recovered Last week 12 stolen artefacts were recovered after having been looted from the Egyptian museum in Cairo in January. Now another five items have resurfaced. All five objects featured on the list of missing items that was released by the SCA earlier a week ago and are four bronze statues of [...]

The Egyptian Museum Three men have been arrested trying to sell some of the items that were stolen from the Egyptian Museum for 50 million dollars. All of the artefacts appear to be some of those listed in the official report that came out yesterday. The items are: 5 bronze statues 1 limestone statue 1 [...]