CAIRO: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced Thursday it has repatriated a 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian wall relief from the UK.

“The Egyptian embassy in London succeeded in restoring a painted limestone wall relief dating back to the 19th Dynasty (1292 B.C.-1189 B.C.) that was illegally smuggled from Egypt,” the foreign ministry stated Thursday.

The fragment was in possession of a British citizen, who bought the relief from a collector in the U.K., but after learning it was stolen and smuggled out of Egypt, he voluntarily decided to deliver it to the Egyptian embassy in London, said the statement…

Tiré du site web : The Cairo Post
Date : 10-12-2015

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