Egypt

Icom publishes “red list” of Egyptian antiquities at risk

Objects include statues, vessels, coins, textiles and manuscripts that the council warns should not be acquired without documented provenance

Published online: 21 February 2012

Arab protesters put their art on the streets

Artists have used the walls of Cairo, Damascus and Tripoli to document the uprisings

Published online: 30 December 2011

Graffiti art honours Egypt's revolution

German street artist Case is due to paint a portrait of Khaled Said in Cairo

Published online: 27 October 2011

Egyptian collector founds political party

Naguib Sawiris hopes to play a role in transforming the country into a “civil democracy”

Published online: 25 August 2011

Russian icons discovered in Egypt

Conservators say Sinai’s climate helped preserve art and artefacts

Published online: 01 August 2011

Zahi Hawass remains antiquities minister—for now

A cabinet reshuffle may well end his term, but it is proving difficult to find his replacement

Published online: 19 July 2011

List of looted antiquities finally released

Ministry admits 54 objects were stolen from the Egyptian Museum

Published online: 24 March 2011

Tales from the Egyptian revolution

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

Details of looting of Cairo and other Egyptian museums

Jewellery the main target in the Egyptian Museum, but mummies also damaged

Published online: 31 January 2011

King Tut’s tomb: Part II

Facsimile of Boy King’s crypt includes lost panel reconstructed from photographs

Published online: 11 January 2011

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