Austria acquired the largest and richest collection of Arabic papyri

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Cairo / Egyptian researcher said that the Arabs ignored the right of papyri that document aspects of their history, cultural, economic and social interest, while the orientalists such treasures that were smuggled to the West, where Austria has the bulk of the papyri.
Mohammad Hamza Ismail Al-Haddad in a seminar at the Supreme Council for Culture in Cairo, the treasures of papyrus leaked to Europe and the United States in two phases .. First, between 1824 and 1881 and which ran papyri illegally included the purchase, theft and smuggling by consuls and merchants of Antiquities and the effects The second phase is located between 1881 and 1852 and which came out papyri Arab during excavations carried out by universities and scientific institutes.
Search mourning and carrying the title "Arab papyri leak to Europe" and is part of a symposium on aspects of Egyptian history is known in military affairs, religious and Fine Arts and the details of daily life.
The two-day seminar held under the title "Egypt's antiquities in the era of Islamic rulers," which begins with the Arab conquest of Egypt and the end of the State Tulunid in the country at the hands of Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 254 AH / 868 AD.
The mourning a review of the institutes and European museums that have special collections of papyrus and from museums in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Strasbourg and the University of Michigan and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago and the Library of Warsaw University in Poland and the Oriental Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, and the library community and the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum as well as scientific bodies in Britain, Russia, Norway, Belgium and Switzerland.
"The months a group of papyrus, the Arab world is the set of Archduke Rainer at the National Library in Vienna, Austria acquired the largest and richest collection of papyrus in the world," he said, adding that deployment of the papyri is still little compared to "mine the great needs of hundreds of researchers to study "where the light of these papyri aspects of economic history, political and administrative history in the Arab