Items related to Antiquity theft

Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Attempt to steal Pharaonic artifact in Aswan foiled
MENA 06 Jun 2012
Security guards foiled an attempt to steal an antique panel depicting King Merenptah, the fourth ruler of the 19th...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Smuggled Egyptian artifacts seized by US agents
Reuters 15 Jul 2011
NEW YORK--A set of 2,000-year-old sarcophagi and other Egyptian antiquities were smuggled into the United States by a...
Fayza Haikal was elected as Head of the newly founded Archaeologists Syndicate in July 2011
Q&A with Archaeologists Syndicate head Fayza Haikal
Ola El-Saket 13 Jul 2011
After years of rejection by the Mubarak regime on the grounds that Egyptian antiquities are an issue of “national...
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.
Authorities arrest police officer for possessing artifacts
Staff 14 May 2011
A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested. A security source said they...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Sale of pharaonic statuette foiled
Hassan Ahmed Hussine 01 May 2011
Egypt's security authorities foiled the attempted sale of a statuette that investigators said carries pharaonic...
Authorities foil attempt to steal 160-ton Ramses II statue near Aswan
Staff 24 Feb 2011
Authorities have thwarted an attempt to steal a statue of King Ramses II (1304-1237 BC) from an ancient stone quarry...
Supreme Council of Antiquities discovered tombs of the builders of the pyramids near the Great Pyramid on January 10, 2010
Al-Masry Al-Youm digs up Fayoum tomb raiders
Ali Zalat
Samah Abdel Aaty
12 Apr 2010
Pharaonic tombs in Tameyah Desert in Fayoum are being raided, according to an investigation by Al-Masry Al-Youm. The...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Antiquities for profit?
Nehal Mostafa 21 Jan 2010
A controversy erupted in parliament this week when MP Ahmed Ezz, who is also a leading member of the ruling National...
Antiquity theft met with harsher penalties
Arabic Edition 12 Oct 2009
Parliament's Culture Committee has instituted harsher punishments for those found guilty of stealing or smuggling...