Indiana Gazette (Ula Ilnytzky)
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said has a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen before the museum acquired it.“We’re going to fight to get these unique artifacts back,” Hawass said at the New York preview of the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” an exhibition that has traveled to five other U.S. cities and London.
Last week, he said, he turned over to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security “all the evidence that I have to prove that this mask was stolen, and we have to bring it back.”
On Wednesday, St. Louis Art Museum spokeswoman Jennifer Stoffel, said the institution “had correspondence with Hawass in 2006 and 2007 and has not heard anything on the matter since.”
Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes