Antiquity theft

Mallawy Museum in Minya has received 3,500 visitors over the past two months since re-opening in September, according to the…

Burg al-Arab prosecutors continued investigations into the discovery and looting of an archeological cemetery on the Alexandria-Matrouh highway. According to investigators,…

Security guards foiled an attempt to steal an antique panel depicting King Merenptah, the fourth ruler of the 19th Dynasty…

NEW YORK--A set of 2,000-year-old sarcophagi and other Egyptian antiquities were smuggled into the United States by a black-market artifacts…

After years of rejection by the Mubarak regime on the grounds that Egyptian antiquities are an issue of “national sovereignty,”…

A police officer and two others with three statues in their possession have been arrested.

Egypt's security authorities foiled the attempted sale of a statuette that investigators said carries pharaonic inscriptions. The piece is 50cm…

Authorities have thwarted an attempt to steal a statue of King Ramses II (1304-1237 BC) from an ancient stone quarry…

Pharaonic tombs in Tameyah Desert in Fayoum are being raided, according to an investigation by Al-Masry Al-Youm. The investigation found…

Parliament's Culture Committee has instituted harsher punishments for those found guilty of stealing or smuggling archaeological artifacts. Newly revised penalties…