Posted on 09/18/2022 11:09:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egypt has recovered on Sunday two ancient Egyptian statues that were smuggled to Belgium, as the country continues intensive efforts to retrieve thousands of artefacts found in the unlawful possession of museums and individuals around the world.
The two pieces are a wooden, painted figurine statue of a standing man resting on a pedestal and awooden ushabti figurine.
The first piece dates back to the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC), the other to the Late Period (664-332 BC), a statement by the ministry read.
In 2016, the two pieces were seized by the Belgian authorities at an exhibition for selling antiquities after investigations concluded the exhibition owner did not possess their ownership documents, the statement added.
The two pieces were handed over by Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations Omar Selim to the Repatriation Antiquities Department (RAD) at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in the presence of General Supervisor of the RAD Shaaban Abdel-Gawad and a representative of the Ministry of Interior...
In June, New York prosecutors announced seizing five Egyptian artefacts worth more than $3 million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an investigation into international trafficking in Egyptian antiquities involving Jean-Luc Martinez, the former president of the Louvre, who was charged in May with complicity in fraud.
In recent years, Egypt toughened penalties for unlawful possession or smuggling of artefacts.
Last year, parliament amended the law on protecting antiquities to stipulate that those illegally possessing or selling antiquities face imprisonment and a fine of EGP 1 million to EGP 10 million.
Egypt has succeeded in recovering 5,000 artefacts from the US, 115 from France, and 36 from Spain in recent years.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.ahram.org.eg ...
Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations Omar Selim (L) and General Supervisor of the Repatriation Antiquities Department Shaaban Abdel-Gawad during the hand-over of two ancient statues retrieved from Belgiumphoto courtesy of the official Facebook page the Egyptian foreign ministry
They’re safer in Belgium
Until the muzzie takeover, they are.
Feel free to post any of these, I plan to get to some or most or maybe all of them over the next week, but it won’t hurt my feelings (he said, in his passive aggressive way) if someone else posts them first, then ping me to them. ;^)
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-animal-husbandry-dung-fuel-fire-syria-stone-age
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963960
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bronze-age-food-vessel-unearthed.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-piece-story-ancient-roman-city.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/science/archaeology-mayan-mexico.html
https://www.livescience.com/massive-trauma-on-south-american-mummies
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/2300yearold-skeleton-unearthed-in-hcm-city/237279.vnp
https://upd.edu.ph/new-last-ice-age-findings-in-palawan-cave/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62901846
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/archaeologists-discover-giant-stone-jars-in-india/144632
The standing man looks like he is either pulling or pushing something - now lost.
They were safer in Belgium.
“intensive efforts to retrieve thousands of artefacts found in the unlawful possession of museums and individuals around the world.”
....so the Moslems can claim they created this civilization long before Islam existed.
....then, in time, they will categorically destroy all these artifacts because they are a sacrilege to Islam.
Saint Peter’s Square in front of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican is one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Over 100,000 people have been known to squeeze into Saint Peter’s Square on occasions like Easter or midnight mass or after a conclave takes place and a new Pope makes his first appearance to the massive crowds on the square. However right in the center of Saint Peter’s Square, you will find a monument that is impossible to miss called an Egyptian Obelisk. These Obelisks were taken from Egypt by the Ancient Romans so it is rather ironic that right in the center of Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican is a stolen object. So what is an Egyptian Obelisk and why does the Vatican have one?
And the Rosicrucians are sad
Heh... the Romans really liked those, and boosted a bunch. That one in particular was brought over for Caligula, and the boat that had to be built to transport it was so large, even by Roman standards, that it became a tourist attraction in its own right. Eventually, Claudius had it sunk end-down for use as a form to pour the concrete mole to anchor the breakwater for his all-season port.
Thanks for adding to the history!
A vacuum sweeper -- the electricity generated the Great Pyramid revolutionized Old Kingdom Egypt.
It’s interesting that a negative impression of the interior construction probably still exists, buried by centuries of silting-up of the Roman-era harbor, and perhaps some of the wood itself.
So you want people to repudiate history?
Oh ok you bet
Repudiate woke BS, as I clearly stated, so shove it.
Nah - he was a workman helping to restore the Great Pyramid’s electrical generator, broken when the barbaric Egyptians invaded and attacked the Westerners, driving them out.
But the hoped for rewards never materialized, because when they tried to fire it up again, they put too much material into the King’s Chamber; it exploded, pushing the relieving blocks out of alignment - damage that can be seen today.
After that abject failure, they stripped off any precious metals they could lay their hands on, while making all the monuments built by the Westerners into their own, leaving us to puzzle out what was what, who did what to whom, and when.
You are delusional
All this article does is discuss who all was on sight during certain discoveries
You are working overtime to be offended
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