Arabic News Daily Page for 7/5/2002
Daily Edition - Friday, July 5, 2002
- Authorities take steps to retrieve Hapi
The statue of Hapi, god of the Nile, went missing along with nine other pieces in 1990. With the help of photographs of the temple before and after the theft, the Egyptian authorities supported their claim to the piece when it was up for auction in New York. Egypt, Local, 7/5/2002 - $250 million, costs of removing 23 million mines in Western Desert
The national committee on removing mines in the Western Desert finalized hammering out a strategy to remove 23 million. Egypt, Local, 7/5/2002