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Egypt severs ties with Louvre over artifacts
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 08 - 10 - 2009


Egypt's antiquities czar took his campaign to
recover the nation's lost treasures to a new level on
Wednesday by cutting ties with one of the world's premier
museums, the Louvre, over disputed artifacts according to AP.
The Paris museum's refusal to return painted wall
fragments of a 3,200-year-old tomb near the ancient temple
city of Luxor could jeopardize its future excavations in
Egypt.
It was the most aggressive effort yet by Zahi Hawass,
Egypt's tough and media savvy chief archaeologist, in his
campaign to reclaim what he says are antiquities stolen
from the country and purchased by some of the world's
leading museums.
His move appeared to have borne fruit almost immediately.
Both the Louvre and France's Culture Ministry said they
were ready to return the pieces.
«The Louvre Museum refused to return four archaeological
reliefs to Egypt that were stolen during the 1980s from the
tomb of the noble Tetaki,» said a statement quoting
Supreme Council of Antiquities chief Hawass.
This was not the first time Hawass cut ties with a museum.
He took a similar step against the St. Louis Art Museum
after it failed to answer his demand to return a
3,200-year-old golden burial mask of a noblewoman. But
taking such an action against an institution of the
Louvre's stature is unprecedented.
Egypt immediately suspended the Louvre's excavation in the
massive necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo, and canceled a
lecture in Egypt by a former curator from the museum.
Thousands of antiquities were spirited out of the country
during Egypt's colonial period and afterward by
archaeologists, adventurers and thieves.
-- SPA


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