Zahi Hawass News
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Nefertiti is reigning supreme in Berlin, where an exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of her bust and explains why Egypt won’t get her back.
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The Egyptian National Museum is safe, and cultural artifacts damaged by vandals who broke into the building during anti-government protests can be restored, the head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said.
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Egypt plans to set up a security control room to monitor all museums after the theft of a $55 million Vincent van Gogh painting in Cairo, Zahi Hawass , head of the country’s antiquities agency said today.
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Zahi Hawass , Egypt’s minister of state for antiquities, said he will appeal a one-year jail sentence imposed on him yesterday.
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The Egyptian Museum reported that 18 artifacts, including statues of King Tutankhamun, are missing after a break-in last month, said Zahi Hawass , the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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Egypt’s antiquities are in “grave danger” from looters following the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak last month, Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, said in his blog .
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A missing statue of King Tutankhamun has been returned to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, along with three other objects lost during the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak from power, an Egyptian minister said.
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Troy David Stratos, self-described movie producer and music impresario, was peeved.
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Egypt has officially asked that Germany hand over a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from Berlin’s Neues Museum as part of the North African country’s efforts to return disputed artifacts.
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