The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently returned a 3,200-year-old ancient Egyptian sarcophagus to a museum in Sweden where it disappeared decades ago.
The painted coffin, which once housed the mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian boy named Pa-nefer-neb, had been missing from Gustavianum, the museum of Uppsala University, for over 50 years. Pa-nefer-neb lived under ancient Egypt’s 19th dynasty of pharaohs, which lasted from 1295-1186 BC.
The Gustavianum did not know how the sarcophagus went missing, but after 1970 it turned up again when a man named Olof Liden, purporting to be an agent for the now-late Swedish artist Eric Ståhl, sold it to the Boston museum in 1985, according to the MFA website. After connecting with Gustavianum, MFA determined the coffin had probably been stolen, and it was sent back to Sweden.
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