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Our Treasures Abroad, USA: 

Zahi Hawass to Try to Put 

Sanctions on Toledo Museum 

of Art for selling Egyptian 

Antiquities from Collection

The former antiquities 

minister will send 

letters to UNESCO 

and other 

international organisations 

in anattempt to have 

sanctions put 

ont he museum. 

Written By/ Nevine El-Aref.

The chairman of Egypt's 

National Committee for 

Antiquities Repatriation 

(NCAR) assigned former 

antiquities minister 

Zahi Hawass to take restricted 

action against Toledo Museum 

of Art which put on sale 

68 artefacts from its collection. 

The objects are from Cyprus, 

Rome and Egypt.

In a telephone interview, 

Hawass told Ahram Online 

the he will send letters to UNESCO, 

the International Committee 

Of Museums (ICOM) and the 

US Congress as well as all 

international institutions to 

remove Toledo Museum from 

the ICOM, because it has 

offended the reputation of 

all museums by selling the 

world heritage.

Hawass asserted that he 

would also send another letter 

to the Toledo museum 

threatening to prohibit 

children from visiting it 

because it is selling the heritage.

 Hawass will also send these 

letters on Sunday to Minister 

of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany

 for discussion before sending 

them to the concerned 

international authorities 

and institutions.

Early this month, Toledo 

Museum of Art in Ohio put 

on sale a collection of 68 

artefacts at Christies auction hall.

The antiquities ministry had 

taken the required legal 

procedures in collaboration 

with Egypt’s Embassy in 

New York to stop any 

transaction of these objects 

but the museum has put 

them on sale for $1.2 million.

Source: Ahram Online 

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