Friday, November 06, 2009

Repatriation: Time for Nefertiti to go home?

Middle East Online

A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday.

The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centrepiece of Berlin's "Neues Museum", which reopened last month 70 years after it was closed following heavy bomb damage during World War II.

"The director of the Egyptian antiquities department at the Berlin museum will come (to Egypt) on December 8 to discuss the right of Egyptians to the return of the statue of Nefertiti," Zahi Hawass told journalists on a visit to Luxor.


The Christian Monitor (Isabelle de Pommereau)

Another article that poses a question but fails to address the possible answer. So far there are 10 comments in response which offer a fairly representative flavour of the thoughts and feelings being aired elsewhere.

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