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Can the Red List protect Egypt's cultural heritage?

Arm of a wooden Pharaonic statue, one the artifacts recovered by the Supreme Council of Antiquities from the National Bank of Egypt, Cairo, 21 November, 2010. The Supreme Council of Antiquities received two hundred artifacts from the National Bank of Egypt that have now  been placed in the Egyptian Museum. The artifacts belonged to a number of foreign collectors and traders of antiquities and artifacts that lived in Egypt. The artifacts were kept in  private vaults at the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo until their transfer to the Supreme Council of Antiquities was decided in accordance to the Egyptian Law on the Protection of Antiquities.
03 Apr 2012
The much-celebrated scene of protesters creating a human shield around the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in the early days of the revolution is still fresh in our minds. People fought for many things, among which is safeguarding their cultural...
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Egypt inks deal with Turkey to restore religious artifacts

26 Mar 2012
Egypt and Turkey signed an agreement on Monday in which Turkey will renovate religious artifacts in Cairo and Alexandria. Al-Azhar, the Antiquities Ministry and the Religious Endowments Ministry signed the agreement for the Egyptian side,...
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Egypt’s museums: What visitors expect of the 'GEM,' Part II

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova (R) looks in awe at an Ancient Egyptian artifact, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, June 13, 2011. Bokova is on an official visit to Egypt partly in a show of solidarity for Egypt's January 25th Uprising and partly to meet with Egyptian officials on allegedly looted artifacts during uprising.
14 Mar 2012
On a Sunday afternoon, the garden of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is quiet. The only people on the premises, apart from the museum’s staff, are scores of Egyptian visitors, mostly students and families who have come to visit...
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Former culture minister says he was not Suzanne Mubarak's 'pet'

Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture during his tour of the Grand Egyptian Museum in December 2009
13 Mar 2012
Farouk Hosni, one of Egypt's longest serving ministers under former President Hosni Mubarak, defended himself on a talk show Monday, saying he made achievements in advancing the status of Egyptian culture.   Hosni was chosen as...
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Sixty-eight artifacts seized in Minya

Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
05 Mar 2012
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 to the prosecution...
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Archaeologists discover name of lost pharaonic king

Relief carvings in the Temple of Kalabsha on Lake Nasser, Egypt.
04 Mar 2012
Archaeologists have discovered the name of a previously unknown pharaonic king from the 17th dynasty, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali said Saturday. A French archaeological mission, headed by Christopher Tiers, restoring the Amun...
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Researchers, museum push to open UN archive documenting World War II cases

A researcher in New York opens a drawer containing some of the 184 reels of microfilmed documents containing data on World War II criminals.
25 Feb 2012
Locked inside U.N. headquarters is a huge but largely unknown archive documenting 10,000 cases against accused World War II criminals, from Belgian charges against Adolf Hitler to the trial of a Japanese commander for inciting rape....
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Threads of 'Narrating the Arab Spring'

Dozens of lawyers and families of the revolution martyrs protesting against what they called as 'intransigence' of the Appeal Court President in granting them permits to attend trial sessions of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, former interior minister Habib al-Adly, who face charges of killing protesters during the January revolution, Justice Ministry, Cairo, 11 August, 2011.
25 Feb 2012
Many of us have spoken and thought of those we wished were present to witness — and perhaps participate in — the Arab revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woman...
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Aswan governor: Abu Simbel temple celebration to go on as planned

Light falls on the faces of statues in the Abu Simbel temple during the Sunrise Festival.
21 Feb 2012
The governor of Aswan has decided to go ahead with the annual celebration to commemorate the biannual solar phenomenon at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel despite Egypt’s current security concerns and mourning over the deaths at Port...
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Egypt begins restoring ancient boat near pyramids

An Egyptian and Japanese team of scientists use a pulley system to lift the first of 41 16-ton limestone slabs to reveal fragments of the ancient ship of King Khufu next to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, Thursday, 23 June, 2011. Archaeologists have begun the excavation process of a 4,500-year-old wooden boat encased underground next to the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egyptologists announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
21 Feb 2012
CAIRO — Archaeologists on Monday began restoration on a 4,500-year-old wooden boat found next to the pyramids, one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. The boat is one of two that were buried next to the Pharaoh Khufu, spokesmen...
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