Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Posted on 10/27/2009 4:22:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egypt's chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, announced that his country wanted its queen handed back forthwith, unless Germany could prove that the 3,500-year-old bust of Akhenaten's wife wasn't spirited illegally out of Egypt nearly a century ago... Then he said he was sure the work had been stolen... Mr. Hawass also recently fired a shot at France, demanding the Louvre return five fresco fragments it purchased in 2000 and 2003 from a gallery and at auction. They belonged to a 3,200-year-old tomb near Luxor and had been in storage at the museum. Egypt had made the demand before, but this time suspended the Louvre's long-term excavation at Saqqara, near Cairo, and said it would stop collaborating on Louvre exhibitions. France got the message. It promised to send the fragments back tout de suite. It didn't go unnoticed in Paris, Berlin or Cairo that Mr. Hawass pressed his case about Nefertiti and suspended the excavations by the Louvre just after his country's culture minister, Farouk Hosny, bitterly lost a bid to become director general of the United Nations' cultural agency, Unesco. The post went late last month to a Bulgarian diplomat instead. Mr. Hosny would have been the first Arab to land the job, and Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, had banked a not insignificant amount of his own prestige on the minister's getting it...
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Egyptian Blames Jewish ‘Conspiracy’ for UNESCO Loss (+ Islamophobia)
JTA | September 23, 2009
Posted on 09/24/2009 10:13:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Before any civilized nation should return these irreplaceable treasures to the latter day inhabitants of the original countries, these upstarts must demonstrate that they are mature enough to handle the rsponsibility. About 400 years would be a reasonable probation period, given the facts of history.
The islamists will just trash it.
What a fantastic photo. Words fail.
She must have been an exquisite woman.
The backstory is, Zahi asked to borrow it, I think it was last year, and was turned down because it’s fragile. The year before or so, Zahi was bent out of shape because the German museum temporarily displayed it atop a plastic body-sculpture (tasteful, IMHO, but of course there was some simulated nudity involved). Earlier this year some Swiss scholar claimed that it wasn’t ancient at all, but a modern replica (I guess of something that hadn’t previously existed).
Definitely. Her name means (variously) “she comes in beauty” or “the beautiful [one] has come”.
Nice hat.
This “Anything Made in Our Country - at Any Time in the Entire History of the World - Belongs to Us” crap is getting real, real old.
I say the Germans and French should tell Professor Halfass to sh*ve it.
Wow, your pictures? Okay, I’m a little jealous now...
But I’ve seen it all in person, just no adequate camera.
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