Supreme Council of Antiquities

around the world are trying to retrieve back what was once theirs or their country’s. The antiquities are often taken without warning and never returned unless one hires people to get that specific piece back. Antiquities acquired by museums without permission should be required to return the pieces to the original place because of the fact that the pieces were looted…

value” to its homeland(Mortimer Paragraph 5). Although this may be true, James Cuno argues that the countries in which these artifacts used to sit may not be the same(Mortimer 8). With many countries that have formed off of once big empires, there would be yet another battle to see where an object's true home is. The decision to give artifacts back to its homeland would cause a problem for artifacts from split up countries. Although the troubles of figuring out which country owns each artifact…

Byzantine era was about 330—1453 The Roman’s empire was a Christian ruler “Constantine the Great” lived 306—337 and he transferred the ancient imperial capital from Rome to Byzantion, part of European continent, and setup within a major intersection of east- west trade. The king named the city in his own honor “City Constantinople”. The Christians already living there were Greek speaking, Christianity replaced the gods of antiquity and it became the official religion way into 700’s, at the time…

the supreme imperial dignity, Galerio, near death, august enacted in Sárdica an edict that marked new guidelines to Roman policy toward Christianity. The edict granted Christians statute tolerance "there again, he said, Christians and celebrate their assemblies and cults, as long as they do not offend against public order" The edict of Galerius, issued in 311, Christians did not grant full religious freedom, but only a cautious tolerance. But despite this, its importance was great. For the…

In the article Vanishing Voices, the author explores the significance of languages to cultures. This correlation is best exemplified in uncovering the history of Ancient Egypt through translating the scripts of the Rosetta Stone. The tablet that taught the world so much about the “Land of the Pharaohs” now is safely secured in England. Despite of a growing national movement to return antiquities to the culture of origin, England must ask themselves before granting repatriation of the Stone,…

painted in different colors, the bust of Nefertiti has its own significance. The bust is one of the most recognizable and ubiquitous pieces of Egyptian art. Wilson himself purchased the busts he used for the piece, a few of the numerous copies of the bust that exist. The bust of Nefertiti even without being painted different colors questions how the Western world has taken and appropriated Egypt’s people, culture and art. The real bust resides in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, seen by thousands…

The pillars of the criminal justice system are derived from the constitution, the Penal Code, and the Penal Procedure Code (Lambropoulou, 2005). The new constitution was amended in April of 2001 after the restoration of democracy in June of 1976 (reference). The judiciary courts in Greece are divided into three (3) sections which are civil, criminal, and administrative courts. The highest judicial authorities are the five (5) special courts which consist of the Supreme Judicial Court, the…

Ogilvie-Herald). Another possible candidate was Ay who succeeded Tutankhamun as king of Egypt (Collins and Ogilvie-Herald). According to Jimmy Dunn, even the Egyptian government may have agreed with some of the archaeologist theories in which, “Aye, Tutankhamun's vizier who ascended to the throne after his death and married his wife? Or was it Horernhab, the army officer who became king after Ayes short four-year rule? Some of the archaeologists suggested that Aye and Horemhab might have shared…

In 1842, Karl Richard Lepsius composed the first modern list of pyramids. He counted 67, however, there have been many more that have been discovered. As of November 2008, 118 pyramids were discovered. Most pyramids are in poor state of preservation or buried by desert sands. If they are even visible, they look like mounds of rubble. Archeologists have the opportunity the identify and study previously unknown pyramids. The most recent one discovered belonged to Queen Sesheshet, mother of 6th…

Most scholars don't believe the theory of Nefertiti being banished due to her abandonment of the cult of Aten because of that of the usual goddesses which would be placed there.Thus indicating her importance to the Pharaoh even in death a fact which refutes the theory of her falling out of favor with Akhenaten. A more modern theory of Nefertiti's disappearance brought to us by a British archaeologist who goes by the name of Joann Fletcher he claims he found the mummy of Nefertiti in 2003, he…