{"id":102143,"date":"2009-12-24T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5321924942324115632"},"modified":"2009-12-24T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:39:12","slug":"repatriation-more-re-nefertiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/102143","title":{"rendered":"Repatriation:  More re Nefertiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/europe\/news\/article_1520889.php\/German-museum-confirms-travel-ban-for-Queen-Nefertiti\">Monsters and Critics<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">New tests show the limestone and plaster bust of Queen Nefertiti is too fragile to fly home to Egypt for a temporary exhibition, the Berlin museum that owns the disputed artwork said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It issued the statement two days after the Egyptian Museum&#8217;s director, Friederike Seyfried, met in Cairo with Egypt&#8217;s antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass. She said she did not negotiate over the 3,500-year-old bust with Hawass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;An examination in 2007 of the state of preservation of the bust ruled it unsuitable for transport or loans,&#8217; said the Prussian Heritage Foundation, the parent corporation of the museum. &#8216;Further tests which have not yet been completed only confirm this.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The future of the exquisite head is highly political, as underlined by the fresh assessment of the bust in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s top culture aide, Bernd Neumann, said Tuesday through a spokesman that a loan was now &#8216;absolutely out of the question on conservation grounds alone.&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5321924942324115632?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters and Critics New tests show the limestone and plaster bust of Queen Nefertiti is too fragile to fly home to Egypt for a temporary exhibition, the Berlin museum that owns the disputed artwork said Tuesday. It issued the statement two days after the Egyptian Museum&#8217;s director, Friederike Seyfried, met in Cairo with Egypt&#8217;s antiquities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}