Posted on 12/14/2008 3:41:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A recent Associated Press article reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now looking into the provenance of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian relic acquired in the late 1990s by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The mask, said to date back to the Nineteenth Dynasty (1293-1185 B.C.), was unearthed early in 1952 by an up-and-coming Egyptian archaeologist named Mohammed Zakaria Goneim. It is now at the center of a long-running ownership dispute between the art museum and the Egyptian government. The set-to was the topic of an in-depth Riverfront Times story by Malcolm Gay, "Out of Egypt," published in February 2006.
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Out of Egypt [Saint Louis Art Museum, Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask]
Riverfront Times | Feb 15, 2006 | Malcolm Gay
Posted on 02/18/2006 8:17:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1581448/posts
Egypt asks US museum to return gold mummy mask
Middle East Times | February 24, 2006
Posted on 03/01/2006 10:35:43 AM PST by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1587889/posts
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Yes, you read it right -- Zahi Hawass claims that he's got the U.S. Department of Homeland Security involved in investigating the paper trail for this artifact. |
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Why is the Department of Homeland Security involved in this?
I would have thought the FBI would be the ones checking on something like this. Or is this because US Customs is now under DHS?
Maybe the artifact was sneaked across the border from Mexico. ;’)
The answer is, I just don’t know. Makes no sense to me. Hopefully someone can explain it.
Just tell him,
“Nefa in a hundred; nefa in a Thousand; nefa in a million years! No, nefa in a million years.”
It was stolen fair and square!
Next damn thing with all this “cultural infringement/theft” stuff, the Germans will be demanding that English speakers give them back their words the Angles & Saxons “stole”.
;’)
Antiquities Minister says Egypt will not abandon its right to “Ka-nefer-nefer” mask
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Egypt lost the pharaonic “Ka-nefer-nefer” mask after the US appeals court refused the challenge submitted by the US federal government against St. Louis Art Museum because it failed to submit the documents which prove Egypt’s ownership of the mask.
Accordingly, the court issued its decision that the mask inside the St. Louis Art Museum isn’t going anywhere.
Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said that he will resort to the private sector in the United States to practice pressures on St. Louis Art Museum according to the agreements signed in this regard. He stressed that Egypt will not abandon its right to “Ka-nefer-nefer” mask.
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=78360#.U5yLC_ldWSo
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