Items related to antiquities

Antiquities Ministry employees stage protests, request tenure
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Jun 2013
Employees of the Ministry of Antiquities staged protests on Tuesday outside the Egyptian Museum. They closed the main...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Authorities discover and authenticate 11 stolen artifacts
MENA 30 May 2013
The Ministry of Antiquities has authenticated eleven artifacts hidden by robbers and subsequently discovered by...
Temple of Karnak which is considered one of the most important Pharaonic monuments
Fourteen statues found in Luxor
Egypt Independent 11 Mar 2013
Fourteen black granite statues of the goddess Sekhmet were found by a German mission during excavations at the temple...
The Antiquities Ministry receives a Roman bust bought by a Brazilian tourist in 1976 and returned to Egypt in the man's will.
Egypt retrieves ancient bust from Brazil
Al-Masry Al-Youm 13 Feb 2013
An ancient Roman bust purchased by a Brazilian tourist in 1976 has returned to Egypt Antiquities Minister Mohamed...
Rights center sues ministers over abuse of abandoned palace
Egypt Independent 21 Jan 2013
Lawyers for the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights are suing the government for alleged encroachments on...
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.
Two arrested in Fayoum for possession of artifacts
Al-Masry Al-Youm 03 Jan 2013
Two suspects were arrested for the illegal possession of 50 ancient Egyptian artefacts in Fayoum on Thursday. The...
مجموعة من المكاييل الأثرية التي تُستخدم في عمليات الوزن، و هي جزء من القطع الأثرية التي استعادها المجلس الأعلى للأثار من البنك الأهلي، القاهرة، 21نوفمبر 2010. تسلم المجلس الأعلى للآثار مائتى قطعة أثرية من البنك الأهلى المصرى وتم إيداعها بالمتحف المصرى. هذه القطع ترجع ملكيتها لأجانب كانوا يعيشون فى مصر، وكانوا من هواة جمع الآثار والتحف أو الاتجار فيها، و احتفظوا بتلك القطع فى خزائن خاصة بالبنك الأهلى المصرى بالقاهرة، حتى تقرر نقلها إلى المجلس الأعلى للآثار تنفيذا لقانون حماية الآثار.
Antiquities Ministry: Byzantine coins found in Beheira
Egypt Independent 26 Nov 2012
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Ali has announced the discovery of two ancient coins dating back to the Byzantine...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Egypt recovers two pharaonic palettes from New Zealand
Al-Masry Al-Youm 21 Nov 2012
  Egyptian authorities recovered two pharaonic stone palettes from New Zealand, which arrived in Egypt on...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Police recover 42 stolen artifacts
MENA 13 Nov 2012
Tourism and monuments police restored 42 artifacts that date back to the Pharaonic and Islamic eras. The artifacts were...
Trade and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities in Egypt
Administrative court orders recovery of 179 artifacts from US
Al-Masry Al-Youm 08 Sep 2012
The State Council Administrative Court on Saturday ordered the government to take the necessary procedures to recover...