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Title: U.S. to return 19 items from King Tut's tomb
Source: MSNBC
URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4010893 ... technology_and_science-science
Published: Nov 10, 2010
Author: MSNBC/AP
Post Date: 2010-11-17 16:06:37 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 139
Comments: 4

CAIRO — Egypt's antiquities authority says the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will return 19 artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass says the trove is made up of small figurines and jewelry, including a miniature bronze dog, a sphinx-shaped bracelet trinket and a necklace.

"This is a wonderful gesture on the part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Hawass said in a statement Wednesday. "For many years the museum, and especially the Egyptian art department, has been a strong partner in our ongoing efforts to repatriate illegally exported antiquities."

The antiquities authority said the Egyptian government's agreement with British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team, who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, called for Egypt to retain ownership of the artifacts found there. After Carter's death, some of the high-quality Egyptian objects bequeathed to the Met came under scrutiny — but at the time, their origin was not determined.

The pieces were sent to New York in 1948 when the Metropolitan Museum closed its expedition house in Egypt, the antiquities authority said.

The decision to repatriate the objects came after an extensive examination of the validity of their origin. Thomas Campbell, the Met's director, said that all of the items were from the Tutankhamun tomb and that Egypt's claim on the antiquities was justified.

"Because of precise legislation relating to that excavation, these objects were never meant to have left Egypt, and therefore should rightfully belong to the government of Egypt," he said on the museum's website.

Hawass said the 19 artifacts would be put on display in a New York exhibition titled "Tutankhamun and the Goldent Age of the Pharaohs," which runs through Jan. 2. "The addition of the artifacts for the final weeks will make this the largest collection of objects from King Tut's tomb ever assembled in the U.S.," James Sanna, president and executive producer of Running Subway Productions, which operates the exhibition venue, said in a statement.

After six additional months of display at the Met, the 19 pieces would then be sent back to Egypt, Hawass said. Ultimately, the artifacts will become part of the permanent King Tutankhamun collection at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, scheduled to open in 2012.

King Tut is one of history's most famous pharaohs because archaeologists found his tomb full of glittering wealth of the rich 18th Dynasty (1569-1315 B.C.). This year, DNA tests and CT scans on Tut's 3,300-year-old mummy confirmed that the pharaoh died of a broken leg complicated by malaria at the age of 19.

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#1. To: X-15 (#0)

But for the Euros, all that stuff would still be under the sand.

Just like the oil and everything else worth recovering.

Lod  posted on  2010-11-17   16:44:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Lod (#1)

Tell that to the college department heads who continually damn Western Civilization. We're living in the twilight of advancement, Obummer has already castrated NASA.

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X-15  posted on  2010-11-17   16:50:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-11-17   17:02:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: X-15 (#0)

King Tut is one of history's most famous pharaohs because archaeologists found his tomb

"they found all that gold in tutankhamun's tomb? I wonder who was buried there,with all that gold?" George Bush 2007 at the tomb of the unnamed soldier

paddlefeet  posted on  2010-11-17   20:08:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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