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EGYPTIAN DELEGATION TO TRAVEL TO US TO EXAMINE STOLEN ANTIQUITIES

Info-Prod Research (Middle East), February, 2008

Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni approved Saturday 9/2/2008 sending an Egyptian delegation from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to New York City to examine antiquities stolen by a US Army helicopter pilot. Chief Warrant Officer Edward George Johnson was arrested Tuesday in Alabama on charges of selling 370 Egyptian artifacts that were stolen from Cairo University excavation storehouse.

In statements on Saturday, SCA Secretary General Zahi Hawwas said he received a few hours ago an official letter from Mark Andrew, an official at the US Department of Homeland Security, in which ...

 

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