#Islamic Glass Lamp
At least 98 old Islamic enameled glass lamps are suspected to have been stolen from Al-Rafa'i mosque in Cairo. One of the lamps turned up for sale at British auction house Christie's and aroused the suspicion of Egyptian architect and conservation activist Omneya Abdel Barr. She noticed the lantern carried the seal of khedive Abbas Helmi Pasha, the last Ottoman viceroy of Egypt and Sudan, classifying the item as an antique and identifying it as belonging to the mosque. Upon…
