Tempest in a teapot

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Irreverent New Year's Eve round up from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, in which they round up the most notable events of the year. An Egyptology reference creeps in as a result of the earlier controversy (still unresolved) about the St Louis mask:

"Tempest in a teapot: Zahi Hawass' demand that the Art Museum return a mummy mask it acquired in good faith in 1998. Egypt's top antiquities official claims the mask was stolen and demanded its return within two weeks or else — seven months ago. Ownership disputes can take decades to resolve, but this demand seemed particularly empty, serving to get Hawass' name in the media — at which he is particularly good.: Zahi Hawass' demand that the Art Museum return a mummy mask it acquired in good faith in 1998. Egypt's top antiquities official claims the mask was stolen and demanded its return within two weeks or else — seven months ago. Ownership disputes can take decades to resolve, but this demand seemed particularly empty, serving to get Hawass' name in the media — at which he is particularly good."