Joan Howard

Meet 95-year-old Australian ‘Indiana Joan’ accused of looting antiquities from Egypt

Egypt is incensed at a 95-year-old Australian woman for looting precious antiquities.

Perth woman Joan Howard — dubbed “Indiana Joan” — has been accused by a group of concerned Egyptian archaeologists of looting artefacts from Egypt, Jordan and Palestine.

Earlier this month Howard gave an interview to The West Australian in which she proudly detailed her adventures during the 1960s and early 1970s while her husband, Keith, travelled widely in the Middle East.

“It was all good fun. Dirty work, of course. But as it turned out, very, very rewarding,” she told the newspaper.

Read the article by Farid Farid in the Sydney Morning Herald.