Egypt's Antiquities Minister Dodges Jail Time

Egypt’s antiquity minister Zahi Hawass will not serve any jail time and will remain in his position, according to the leading Egyptologist’s blog.

The Egyptian court sentenced Hawass to a year in jail and ordered him removed from his job.

The sentence arose out a lawsuit accusing Hawass of refusing to fulfill a court ruling issued last year over a contract to run the lucrative bookstore. (Full details about the convoluted dispute, which include both contenders’ claims, can be found in Hawass’s blog and in the Talking Pyramids blog, which features reports based on the accounts of Farid Atiya, the businessman who sued Hawass )....