A Third Intermediate Coffin belonging to the 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Ames has been confiscated in Miami ("Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US", AP March 22, 2009). Zahi Hawass claims that the wooden coffin was removed from Egypt in 1884.
The coffin arrived in the USA from Spain.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Third Intermediate Period Coffin Seized in Miami
Looting Matters (David Gill)
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There is no Pharaoh Ames from the Third Intermediate Period, or any other, and I am pretty sure that the statute of limitations ran out on something stolen (?) in 1884! If not, it is time to start emptying museums worldwide to fill the already overstuffed Cairo Museum to bursting. But archeology + politics + media is always fun, specially when Hawass gets himself involved. When will this man retire? It cannot come too soon!
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