February 14, 2012
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Cairo has called on a Swedish museum to return more than 200 artworks taken from Egypt by a Swedish collector in the 1920s. AP has the story.
The artifacts, Hawass said, were taken “in an illegal manner” by Otto Smith, a collector who was digging in Egypt at locations such as Saqqara and Luxor in mid 1920s, when there was a huge appetite for Egyptian artifacts in the West.
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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February 8th, 2009 at 10:31 am
What ever hapenned to this thread? Were there any comments? Curious minds want to know….
February 8th, 2009 at 10:38 am
http://www.corren.se/archive/2009/1/22/k2lgdy2sp7jimzf.xml
Await with baited breath for their decision on Wednesday.
February 14th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
http://www.ostergotlandslansmuseum.se/bild/media/090211.pdf
Swedish bureaucratic blah blah blah. Sound and fury signifying nothing! Not even that….sort of fika and lit candles signifying nothing. Better get on with my life and not wait.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:29 am
Let’s make a deal, OK?
If Sweden gives back the artifacts, then Egypt has to get rid of Zawi Hawass.
Forever.