Ramses in the Aussie press

Ramses down under: Australian news outlets SBS News, the Sydney Morning Herald,and the Mirage are taking note of the Ramses II exhibition that will head from Paris to Sydney’s Australian Museum this November. In Sydney to inspect the exhibition site, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri weighed in on the debate over whether ancient Egyptian artifacts should be under foreign ownership. “I don’t mind if we have Egyptian artifacts in Australia,” he said. “They have thousands of pieces in the Louvre Museum. I don’t care. We have obelisks in Italy, England, and America. They are for me like ambassadors in those countries.”