After its foundation the british museum received several gifts including ancient relics and antiquities.
The repatriation of artworks and antiquities is one ofthe most debated and controversial arguments in the art world.
One of the great remaining mysteries of ancient Egypt, the lineage of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may soon be solved, the country's antiquities supremo hinted on Sunday.
There are some unknown Chinese antiquities in Ribery's home like things used in ancient Chinese imperial palaces, and the customs in their family also similar to that of China.
Upon taking the helm of Egypt's Supreme Council of antiquities in 2002, Hawass made recovering stolen Egyptian antiquities a priority.
Troops are doing nothing to prevent the "farming" of known antiquities.
He issued a regulation, which he says was agreed to by all major international museums including the Louvre, banning the acquiring or display of stolen antiquities.
Greek and Roman antiquities
According to Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of antiquities, the Met has long been a strong partner in Egypt's efforts to repatriate illegally exported antiquities.
The buyer was Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, an Egyptian-born Greek who had made her way to the top of the cutthroat antiquities business after studying Egyptology in Paris.
They collect antiquities.
The mummy has been one of the most important exhibits in Saffron Walden Museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities since 1878.
Mr. Hamdani’s successor as antiquities inspector for the province, Amir Abdul Razak al-Zubaidi, said he did not even have the budget to pay for gas to drive to the sites of new looting.
"When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was a dwarf....," said Mahmoud Affifi, director of Cairo and Giza antiquities for Egypt's Supreme Council of antiquities.
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These are antiquities from Egypt.
Since the acquisition of the Greek vase, the prices of antiquities have shot skyward.
The permanent galleries of contemporary Hong Kong art, Chinese antiquities, historical pictures, Chinese fine art and the Xubaizhai collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy continued to feature selected works from the museum's collection on a rotational basis.
Israel's antiquities authority says a storm that raked over part of an archaeological dig this week has exposed a 1, 700-year-old statue.
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