52 foreign museums display one million Egyptian antiquities
A part of our smuggled antiquities displayed in a foreign museum
A part of our smuggled antiquities displayed in a foreign museum
evening news
Monday, August 09, 2021 – 12:57 PM

Mohammed Taher

Dr Hussein Daqil, a researcher in Egyptian antiquities, confirmed in exclusive statements to the “Evening News” that there are 52 foreign museums; It contains nearly one million Egyptian artefacts, out of 38 museums, including 780,000 pieces, according to official statistics in those museums, while 14 other museums contain tens of thousands of Egyptian pieces, but the number is not exactly limited.

Dukeil added that British museums alone have about 275,000 artefacts displayed in 7 museums, as the British Museum in London contains more than 100,000 pieces and 6,000 other pieces, and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Antiquities contains about 80,000 artefacts. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford contains nearly 40,000 pieces, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has more than 16,000 pieces, the World Museum in Liverpool contains more than 16,000 pieces, the Manchester Museum, which has about 16,000 pieces, and the Sir John Sloan Museum In London, it has an unspecified number.

As for Germany, it has more than 104 thousand Egyptian artefacts distributed in four museums, the first of which is the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, which contains nearly 80,000 artefacts, and the State Museum of Egyptian Art, and is located in Munich, with about 8 thousand pieces, and the Romer and Pelisius Museum. It is located in Hildesheim, with about 8,000 pieces, and the Egyptian Museum at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig in Saxony, which has about eight pieces.

There are approximately 52,000 Egyptian antiquities pieces in France, located in the Louvre Museum in Paris, which contains about 50,000 artefacts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, which has 1,500 pieces.

As for the United States of America; Our Egyptian antiquities are distributed in 22 museums, and there are more than 220,000 pieces in 15 museums, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which has about 45,000 pieces, and the Kesley Museum of Archeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which has more than 45,000 pieces, and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania The Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, with more than 42,000 objects, the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago, with approximately 30,000 objects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with about 26,000 objects, Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California, with more than 17,000 objects, and the Peabody Museum The Museum of Natural History is located in New Haven, and includes more than 5,000 pieces, the Egyptian Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, California, with more than 4,000 pieces, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, with more than 3,500 pieces, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, It has more than 2,500 objects, the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., with more than 1,900 objects, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, with more than 1,600 objects, and the University of Memphis Museum of Art in Tennessee, with more than 14 00 pieces and the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, with more than 1,000 pieces, and the Free Gallery of Art in Washington, with more than 1,000 pieces, while there are other artifacts that are not limited to the number in 7 other American museums, namely: The Museum of Man in San Diego in San Diego in California .

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. And the High Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas. and the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont. And the Michael Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. And the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

As for our antiquities in Italy, more than 60,000 are found in three museums, namely the Egyptian Museum in Turin, which contains 32,500 pieces, and the Egyptian Pavilion in the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, which contains more than 14 thousand pieces, as well as the Civic Archaeological Museum in Bologna, which contains about 3,500 pieces in addition to many other pieces.

In Russia, the number of our antiquities there is more than 13,500 pieces in two museums, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, with more than 8,000 pieces. The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has more than 5,500 Egyptian artefacts and more than 56,000 other Egyptian artefacts; It is distributed in many other European museums. There are also many pieces of Egyptian antiquities in Turkey and the museums of the Israeli entity.

This is in addition to many Egyptian obelisks and temples. There are 13 Egyptian obelisks in Rome alone, and there are other Egyptian obelisks in many European countries, including Cleopatra’s’ Obelisk in Paris and Cleopatra’s Obelisk in London Cleopatra’s Obelisk in New York, and Thutmose III’s’ Obelisk in Istanbul. These are not the other obelisks that sank in the sea during attempts to smuggle them abroad.

As for the Egyptian temples outside Egypt, they are limited to 5 temples donated by President Gamal Abdel Nasser to many countries; Our gratitude from Egypt for its assistance in the process of saving the monuments of Nubia during the construction of the High Dam, and these temples are the Temple of Dendur, which was built in the first century BC, and was gifted to the United States of America, by a presidential decree on April 28, 1963, and handed over to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1967. The Temple of Tafa Abdel Nasser donated it to Holland in 1960. The Temple of Tafa was located in the Nubian village of Amberkab. It was built in the Roman era and was reinstalled in the Antiquities Museum in Leiden in 1971. It was gifted to Italy in 1966, and it is now located in the Turin Museum and the Temple of Dadbod, which was located south of Aswan. Abdel Nasser gifted it to Spain in 1960, and it is now located in the “Del Oeste” Park near the Royal Palace in Madrid and part of the Kalabsha Temple. It was gifted to Germany, and this part included one of the gates of the Kalabsha temple known as the “Ptolemaic Gate”, which is now