{"id":723068,"date":"2010-04-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-6956184282054502570"},"modified":"2010-04-24T04:27:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:27:54","slug":"hawass-chides-museums-over-antiquities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723068","title":{"rendered":"Hawass chides museums over antiquities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianagazette.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/22\/news\/doc4bd06313ea44c861368469.txt\">Indiana Gazette<\/a> (Ula Ilnytzky)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said has a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen before the museum acquired it.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We&#8217;re going to fight to get these unique artifacts back,&#8221; Hawass said at the New York preview of the &#8220;Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,&#8221; an exhibition that has traveled to five other U.S. cities and London.<\/p>\n<p>  Last week, he said, he turned over to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security &#8220;all the evidence that I have to prove that this mask was stolen, and we have to bring it back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  On Wednesday, St. Louis Art Museum spokeswoman Jennifer Stoffel, said the institution &#8220;had correspondence with Hawass in 2006 and 2007 and has not heard anything on the matter since.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-6956184282054502570?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky) Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said has a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen before the museum acquired it. &#8220;We&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-326o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}