Egypt
Objects include statues, vessels, coins, textiles and manuscripts that the council warns should not be acquired without documented provenance
Published online: 21 February 2012
Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings
Published online: 30 December 2011
German street artist Case is due to paint a portrait of Khaled Said in Cairo
Published online: 27 October 2011
Naguib Sawiris hopes to play a role in transforming the country into a “civil democracy”
Published online: 25 August 2011
Conservators say Sinai’s climate helped preserve art and artefacts
Published online: 01 August 2011
A cabinet reshuffle may well end his term, but it is proving difficult to find his replacement
Published online: 19 July 2011
Ministry admits 54 objects were stolen from the Egyptian Museum
Published online: 24 March 2011
My anger is initially directed at the looters and my thoughts keep returning to the same question: why are these criminals, who are Egyptians, looting their own history and their nation’s pride in order to sell it?
Published online: 24 March 2011
Jewellery the main target in the Egyptian Museum, but mummies also damaged
Published online: 31 January 2011
Facsimile of Boy King’s crypt includes lost panel reconstructed from photographs
Published online: 11 January 2011