Posted on 07/06/2015 11:11:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
For 13 years, the excavation permissions were limited only to Egyptian missions to explore treasures in Upper Egypt but due to the “successive requests from foreign Universities and researchers, the council agreed to give the licenses after 13 years of suspension,” Amin told Youm7 without going into further details on number of the foreign missions applied for the permits.
Allowing any foreign mission to search the Egyptian artifacts should be approved by the Ministry of Tourism and five other sovereignty bodies, former head of the SCA Abdel Halim Nour el-Din told The Cairo Post Saturday.
Moreover, the mission should be escorted by security forces and accompanied with Egyptian archeologists, Nour el-Din said, noting that the mission should pay certain fees. He added that all the excavated artifacts should be documented only under the supervision of the Antiquities Ministry.
Nour el-Din added that the number of the Egyptian archaeology missions does not exceed 12, while there are around 200 foreign missions nationwide. He added that the big number of the foreign missions stems from their professionalism in excavation work along with their advanced equipments and high financial capabilities.
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Excellent. I just hope those sand troglodytes who are part of ISIS don’t get their hands on anything.
Talk about publish or perish!
Yeah.
That is wonderful-and I also hope all historical objects get carted away to safety so they won’/t be destroyed by ISIS savages...
Did Zahi impose the ban?
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:’) Thanks for joining!
Y’know, I was wondering that as well.
More generally, I remember that “Zowie” banned Nick what’s-his-name over some bogus smuggling charges, then another team used the ground penetrating radar info that Nick graciously shared to find KV-63. And then Zowie all but took credit for the operation while deprecating the use of the radar as a source of discovery.
Thanks for adding me. ;)
No problems, keep an eye on it, I’m not using the computer where I keep the list, and plan to add it later. I just may post a topic from here, and ping it later. If the ping message appears and you didn’t receive it, send me an upside-the-head in FReepmail.
Will do. ;)
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