The Scandal of the Century - The Mansoor Amarna Exposé is the factual story of The Mansoor Amarna Collection. The controversy over this collection involves Egyptologists, scientists, and museums from around the world.

Ms. Mansoor wrote this book to expose the unscholarly and tyrannical control that a few scholars have on the art world and our perception of the shape of past civilizations. The public should be made aware of their influence, indicates the author, so that some protection is established for our ancient heritage.

This exposé concerns a collection of 106 limestone sculptures and fragments, dating from circa 1350 B.C., representing the beautiful Queen Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, and their family.

The author's family has spent over forty years fighting to prove the authenticity of their collection. The author points out that they wouldn't have wasted their time and energy on that fight if they weren't absolutely sure of the authenticity of their sculptures.

A former associate producer of a top network news feature TV show, the author brings her considerable skills at investigative reporting, research and writing to bear on this report.

• Acknowledgment
• Preface
• Foreword

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• Chapter 1 M.A. Mansoor, the Antiquary
• Chapter 2 Acquisition of a Collection of Amarna Sculpture Masterpieces
• Chapter 3 King Farouk Buys Amarna Sculptures
• Chapter 4 The Abbé Drioton Seeks to Acquire the Remaining Sculptures of the Collection for the Cairo Museum
• Chapter 5 First Trip to the United States
• Chapter 6 A Report Spelling Disaster
• Chapter 7 A Plan to Bring a Part of the Tut-Ankh-Amon Treasures for Exhibit in the United States
• Chapter 8 The Report of Drs. Zaki Iskandar and Zahira Mustafa
• Chapter 9 Disaster in Cairo
• Chapter 10 Years of Hard Work and Travel
• Chapter 11 A "Splendid Galaxy of Expert Opinions"
• Chapter 12 A Flagrant Defiance and Disregard of Justice
• Chapter 13 Scientific Reports Sent to Museums
• Chapter 14 Opinions of Three Egyptologists
• Chapter 15 The Opinion of Dr. Harold J. Plenderleith
• Chapter 16 M. A. Mansoor: 1881 - 1968
• Chapter 17 "Je Cherche un Homme. . . "
• Chapter 18 A Letter from Dr. Bernard Von Bothmer
• Chapter 19 The Detroit Episode
• Chapter 20 The Los Angeles Episode
• Chapter 21 A Meeting with Dr. Jacques Vandier
• Chapter 22 Dr. Colonna Discovers the Amarna Collection
• Chapter 23 Another European Trip
• Chapter 24 Other Events Between 1970 and 1975
• Chapter 25 An Exhibition of El-Amarna Sculptures and Reliefs of the M.A. Mansoor Collection
• Chapter 26 "Les Moutons de Panurge" (The Blind Followers)
• Chapter 27 Three More Reports Authenticating the Mansoor-Amarna Collection
• Chapter 28 Anatomy of an Absurd Article
• Chapter 29 An Egyptian Fairy Tale: "A Clever Forger"
• Chapter 30 His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, Receives Two of the Amarna Sculptures of the Mansoor Collection as a Gift to the Vatican's Egyptian Museum
• Chapter 31 A Gift to the Louvre - "Je Vous Remercie . . . Pour Cet Enrichissement des Collections Nationales"
• Chapter 32 A Proposed Gift to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Chapter 33 "In Defence of the Mansoor-Amarna Collection" (Gianfranco Nolli - Andreina Leanza Becker-Colonna, Rome, June 1986)
• Chapter 34 The Mansoor El-Amarna Exhibition of Rome 1990
• Chapter 35 An Offer to Buy Back Two Amarna Sculptures from the Denver Museum
• Chapter 36 A Baffled and Puzzled Egyptologist
• Chapter 37 The Complexity of Egyptian Art
• Chapter 38 The Third Exhibition of the Mansoor El-Amarna Collection 1991

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• Epilogue
• Conclusion

Manuscript Review

• Letter from Dr. Trapp
  Letter from Dr. Richard Trapp, Professor of Classics, Emeritus, San Francisco State University to Christine Mansoor upon receipt of the book manuscript.
• Letter from Judge Xanthos
  Letter from The Honorable George Xanthos, Judge of the Superior Court, State of California.

Book Review

• Book review by KMT Magazine

NOTE: Letters reacting to the KMT review were never published in KMT. We are pleased to make these available to you here.

If you would like to see KMT 's review of the collection as it was displayed in San Francisco in 1991, obtain a copy of their Winter 1991-92 issue. As of the Winter 1996-97 issue the '91-92 issue was still available. Subsequent to that review are letters to the editor, both pro and con concerning the collection. These may be found in the Spring and Summer 1992 issues (also available as of the Winter 1996-97 issue).

• Letter from Alfred Mansoor
  Letter from Alfred Mansoor, Secretary, Mansoor Amarna Corporation, to the Amarna Research Foundation regarding Mr. Dennis Forbes, Editor of KMT Magazine and Dietrich Wildung, Direktor of the Berlin Museum.

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