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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>A looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that was on display at a US museum has been returned to Egypt.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 2.9m (9.5ft) long “Green Coffin” dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned 664BC to 332BC, and belonged to a priest called Ankhenmaat.<\/p>\n

It was looted from the Abu Sir necropolis in north Egypt by a global art trafficking network, which smuggled it through Germany into the US in 2008.<\/p>\n

A collector loaned it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2013.<\/p>\n

The sarcophagus was repatriated after an investigation that lasted several years and was formally handed over by US diplomats at a ceremony in Cairo on Monday. The event was attended by Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa.<\/p>\n

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“Today’s ceremony is emblematic of the long history of co-operation between the United States and Egypt on antiquities protection and cultural heritage preservation,” said US charge\u0301 d’affaires in Egypt, Daniel Rubinstein.<\/p>\n

Mr Issa said the return of the sarcophagus showed Egypt’s strenuous efforts to recover smuggled artefacts.<\/p>\n

In September, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the Green Coffin, which was valued at over $1m (\u00a3830,000), was illegally trafficked out of Egypt by a multinational network of antiquities smugglers.<\/p>\n

The network was also responsible for trafficking the “Gold Coffin”, which was which was returned to Egypt in 2019, the Stele of Pa-di-Sena, which is also from the Late Dynastic Period and was handed over in 2020, and five pieces seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.<\/p>\n

The US is not the only country to have returned antiquities to Egypt recently.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Israel handed over 95 relics which had been smuggled into the country or found for sale in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Last month, a university in the Republic of Ireland said it was planning to repatriate a sarcophagus, mummified human remains and canopic jars.<\/p>\n

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