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Ahram Online Prosecutors from the US state of New York seized five Egyptian artefacts worth more than $3 Million from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The decision is part of an investigation into international trafficking involving the Louvre Museum in France. “The artefacts include a group of painted linen fragments …

Nevine El-Aref – Ahram Online The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office recovered a gilded coffin of Nedjemankh from the Metropolitan Museum earlier this year. It was handed over to Egypt late on Wednesday. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance (Jr) held a repatriation ceremony in New …