Thieves escaped with 145 Islamic artefacts after raiding a university storage area in Cairo in March, Egypt’s minister of antiquities said on Tuesday.
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/ 14 February 2011
An Egyptian minister says thieves targeted most-valuable artefacts after breaking in through roof and descending by ropes.
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/ 27 December 2007
Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country’s ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said his country wanted to own the copyright to its historic monuments.