Bassir Portrays London’s Christies Hall as Enemy of Humanity

Dr. Hussein Bassir, Director of Alexandrina Bibliotheca’s Museum, said that Christies Hall in London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, is an enemy of humanity, adding that the Hall will not stop trespassing all treaties and accords that protect the Egyptian antiquities.

This is another crime added to those ones of that British auction hall.

He urges the United Nations of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and all other international and local bodies to intervene to stop that hall from auctioning the Egyptian antiquities anymore.

He called on the Ministries of Antiquities, Foreign Affairs and all other concerned Egyptian government agencies to do their best to save the Egyptian antiquities and retrieve them to the country.

Dr. Bassir affirmed that the Ministry of Antiquities shoulders the responsibility for preventing theft of artifacts and smuggling them abroad.

He praised efforts of the ministry to restore antiquities such as coffin of Ndjm Ankh from the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, USA. The coffin was smuggled from Egypt in the course of the 20th century.

"The Egyptian state takes all necessary measures to keep its antiquities," he said.

Christies Hall must stop its illegal practices and crimes against humanity and heritage.