An interview with Thomas Logan, Egyptologist, who brought the Tut show to America in 1976.

In the beginning, we didn't know what kind of exhibition it would be or how popular.   We had no clue. We were getting the death mask out of the vitrine (glass case) and Walter Cronkite's CBS team showed up to photograph us.   It's a Victorian museum, and I was on the second floor and had this mental image of me falling down the stairs and the headlines reading, "Young curator breaks priceless object."   After Cronkite did his piece on TV, it was Tut-a-mania.   Books on ancient Egypt flew off the shelf; friends I didn't know called to get tickets.   It opened at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and ended at the Met...

Thomas Logan: Up close with King Tut, Monterey County Herald, California, USA, July 17, 2005.

Egypt demanded that institutions in Britain and Belgium return two pharaonic reliefs it says were chipped off tombs and stolen 30 years ago, threatening Sunday to end their archaeological work here if they refuse.

The 4,400-year-old reliefs, taken from two tombs uncovered in 1965, are at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Britain and the Catholic University of Brussels.   A request has been sent to both seeking their return, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said in a statement...

Egypt may halt digs if artefacts not returned, AP via Chicago Sun- Times, USA, July 18, 2005.

cf. Egypt Demands Return of Pharaonic Reliefs From Institutions in Britain and Belgium, AP via ABC News, USA, July 17, 2005.