Amarna fake statuette may go back on dispaly

The Bolton News

The Amarna Princess, Bolton Museum's statuette at the centre of a forgery scam, could be exhibited in the town again.

Conman Shaun Greenhalgh and his parents fooled experts at the British Museum, Christie's and the Egyptology department at Bolton Museum into believing it was a 3,300-year-old image of the mother of King Tutankhamun.

The museum parted with £440,000 for the statuette in September, 2003, and, amid a blaze of publicity, it went on display as the highlight of their collection of artefacts in January, 2004.

It was taken off show after being revealed as a fake and has since been held by the Metropolitan Police as evidence. But now, after Judge William Morris ruled it should not be destroyed, it is possible that the Amarna Princess could be put on display once more in the town - this time in an exhibition telling her own remarkable story.

See the above page for more.