Looted ancient sarcophagus returned to Egypt from US

AN ANCIENT WOODEN sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in the US was returned to Egypt after US authorities determined it was looted years ago.

Mostafa Waziri, from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, an era that spanned the last of the Pharaonic rulers from 664 BC until Alexander the Great’s campaign in 332 BC. It was symbolically handed over at a ceremony today in Cairo by Daniel Rubinstein, the US charge d’affaires in Egypt.

It was smuggled through Germany into the United States in 2008, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg.

It’s a start I suppose….

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