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A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...
Egypt, on the other hand, has had no luck negotiating the return of its stolen artifacts. The Egyptian government has also been requesting the return of the bust of Queen Nefertiti from Germany ...
The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V carved in 196 BCE, the stone is inscribed with three distinct languages ...
The story of the bust should make the Berlin Museum ashamed of how the bust left Egypt. Ludwig Borchardt, a German archaeologist, discovered the bust of Nefertiti in 1912.
The helmet was excavated at at the Łysa Góra site in Poland's Mazovia region. B. Kaczyński / State Archaeological Museum Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed a horde of 300 artifacts dating ...
The ancient bust of Ramses II is being held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for restoration, ... The stone bust is believed to have been stolen in the late 1980s or early 1990s, ...
On the eve of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, some of the country’s artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the bust of Nefertiti, remain overseas Egyptologist Zahi Hawass is leading a ...
The British Museum has come under fire as pressure mounts for it to return the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian (196 BC) granodiorite script, back to its home country.
The pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti was uncovered in 1912 by a German team and then shipped to Berlin. A prominent Egyptian archaeologist has demanded its return, along with the Rosetta Stone ...
Mr Hawass, who was minister of antiquities in 2010, is planning another campaign to return the Nefertiti Bust from the Neues Museum in Berlin once his Rosetta Stone petition hits a million signatures.