Dr Hawass also lobbies for the return of other cultural objects deemed to be of great archaeological value to Egypt.
The convention requires signatories to prevent the theft of cultural objects, but also to recover and return stolen cultural property.
As our low mimetic cultural objects saturate global consciousness, can we also reckon a high-zone balancing act that executes Design theory on the concourses of daily life?
The meeting is part of a series of training sessions also organized by UNESCO in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, to strengthen the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural objects in UNESCO Member States.
The Section of Museum and Cultural Objects of UNESCO is developing two pilot installations which deal with remembering, historicizing and rediscovering the relationships that have existed between different civilizations and cultures within the Mediterranean and Nile basins.
The main objective of the meeting was to provide representatives of those institutions concerned with illicit trafficking of cultural objects (public and private museums and institutions linked to museums) with reference tools to fight against this phenomenon.
It is one of the earliest wrecks dating from the beginning of Spanish colonisation and disappeared with a huge cargo of gold and silver along with gems and cultural objects specially collected to show the king of Spain the extent of the wealth of the New World.
The workshop on "Capacity-building of national institutions in the field of prevention against illicit trafficking of cultural objects" which took place in Bahrain National Museum (Kingdom of Bahrain) from 21 to 25 November 2010 was organized by UNESCO Doha Office and the Section of Museums and Cultural Objects in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Information of Bahrain.
Lord Inglewood, of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), called it "a rare survivor".
Cassettes have long been considered obsolete, but the objects have had a cultural resurgence in recent years as independent musicians and labels have returned to the format in droves.
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I'm often accused of being a Luddite -- mostly based on my fervent and affectionate clinging to several physical objects that are quickly becoming cultural artifacts: the ink pen, the paper book, and the vinyl record -- but those items haven't been the only 'evidence' my accusers have historically cited.
And when American forces discovered enormous caches of looted cultural materials, they set about ensuring that these objects were treated with the greatest respect.
Cultural heritage does not end at monuments and collections of objects.
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