antiquities

Authorities in Egypt have set a budget of about 3 billion Egyptian pounds ($97 million) for the maintenance and restoration of antiquities during the financial year 2023-2024, according to Ahmed Issa, the country’s minister of tourism.…
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An attempt to smuggle a 2,000-year-old Iranian carving into the UK was thwarted recently when the item was seized by authorities at a British airport. The treasure, a large fragment from a Sasanian rock relief, depicts a male figure and…
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Residents in the Houthi-held city of Sanaa in Yemen have found what is purportedly a 2,000-year-old mummified body in the garbage. The discovery sparked fury among Yemenis, in particular archaeologists who have long fought to protect and…
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Kuwait handed over 5 Pharaonic antiquities to Egypt, Thursday, which were seized by the General Administration of Customs at Kuwait Airport in 2019. Director of Antiquities and Museums Department at the National Council for Culture, Arts…
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A British and a German tourist accused of smuggling ancient shards out of Iraq appeared in a Baghdad court in yellow detainees’ uniforms Sunday, telling judges they had not acted with criminal intent and had no idea they might have broken…
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