Hawas check Nefertiti papers to prove smuggled from Egypt

Egypt continues talks with Germany in its bid to recover the statue of Queen Nefertiti, which dates back to 3400 year.
He said Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, told Reuters he would meet on December 20 with the director of the Egyptian papyri in Berlin’s new museum, which displays the famous statue that has attracted hundreds of millions of visitors from around the world.

Zahi Hawass said «the only thing we’ll be discussing is whether the Director of any legal papers show that the bust of Nefertiti left Egypt illegally». He added: «all the evidence collected to date indicate that the bust of Nefertiti left Egypt illegally».

Hawass and the efforts to restore the bust of Nefertiti among the priorities of a campaign to re-Pharaonic, including the Rosetta Stone, now in the British Museum, Egypt says it looted from the country by foreigners.

Hawass said that it expected to make responsible Frederika Svrid in the Berlin Museum to obtain evidence of the statue in a legitimate way, but said that Egypt will show how the statue out of the country through the Egyptian deception on its importance.

And the bust of Nefertiti was found in 1912 in Tel el-Amarna, the site Okhittatun city founded by King Akhenaten Nefertiti’s husband, the capital of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty in the era of the modern state, had not experienced the capital only a short time in history, the statue back in Germany later.

Hawass said Egypt is ready to negotiate the granting of Germany artifacts in exchange for the statue, but did not disclose the pieces that may be offered Egypt.

He added that successive German governments refused Egypt’s request to return the statue, which abound in the world or painted images made like him.

Zahi Hawass said: «I can negotiate. Not opposed to a museum or display the artifacts to the public .. I can send them artifacts in turn ».

The Berlin hesitate to lend Egypt the statue to be displayed in his country, for reasons including that she fears the lack of appropriate facilities to display this effect Nafis.

But he pointed out that Egypt now has a lot of museums to display the appropriate artifacts are rare, he said, adding that he wants to view the bust of Nefertiti at the Museum of the wall was completed recently in Minya, a province that includes the Tel el-Amarna.

Hawass pledged to strive for the restoration of other important artifacts it says was taken from Egypt illegally.

He said he will continue to work to restore other effects, including the Rosetta Stone, which carries an inscription in hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek and helped to decode the hieroglyphics early nineteenth century.

Egypt calls for the recovery of a statue of the engineer who built the Great Pyramid before Blazallos Roemer Museum in Hildesheim in Germany and in the panel of the Temple of Dendera exhibited in the Louvre in Paris and a bust of the architect who built the pyramid of Khafre of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Hawass said «if anyone has evidence that this statue or the painting is stolen from Egypt, it is my right».

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