Dispute Over Corporate Sponsorship Ends
May 26, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
John Rowe, chief executive officer of the Chicago energy provider Exelon, which is sponsoring a major exhibit on antiquities at the Field Museum, agreed to give up the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus he kept in his corporate office, bringing an end to a heated two-day standoff with Egyptian officials, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The sarcophagus will be displayed at the Field Museum, in Chicago, whose exhibit on ancient Egyptian pharaohs opens to the public today.
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s antiquities council, had previously threatened to cut off future collaboration with the museum unless Mr. Rowe relinquished the artifact or the museum removed Exelon as a sponsor.
