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Out of Egypt

By Malcolm Gay February 15, 2006

It was near the end of September 1951 when a young archaeologist named Mohammed Zakaria Goneim noticed a small outcropping of masonry along a terrace at Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis twenty miles south... More >>>

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When M. Zakaria Goneim discovered the 19th Dynasty mask atop a buried Egyptian pyramid, he dubbed her Ka-Nefer-Nefer: the Twice-Beautiful Ka.

Case Closed? For now the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask resides behind glass in the Saint Louis Art Museum.

M. Zakaria Goneim

"It's certainly not [an allegation] that I take lightly," says
Saint Louis Art Museum director Brent Benjamin.
"Mistakes can be made."

Dutch threat: Reformed antiquities smuggler Michel van
Rijn says looters stole the mask when they plundered an
Egyptian storeroom in the late 1980s.

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When M. Zakaria Goneim discovered the 19th Dynasty mask atop a buried Egyptian pyramid, he dubbed her Ka-Nefer-Nefer: the Twice-Beautiful Ka.

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When M. Zakaria Goneim discovered the 19th Dynasty mask atop a buried Egyptian pyramid, he dubbed her Ka-Nefer-Nefer: the Twice-Beautiful Ka.

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