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Egyptian gold coffin on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art returned to Egypt as looted antiquity

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Egyptian gold coffin on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art returned to Egypt as looted antiquity
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The gold coffin of Nedjemankh is displayed during a news conference to announce its return to the people of Egypt, in New York City, Sept. 25, 2019.

A gilded coffin looted by art thieves in the wake of the Arab Spring and unwittingly bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been returned to the Egyptian authorities.

The sarcophagus dates back to the first century BC and once held the mummy of Nedjemankh, a priest of the ram god Heryshaf.

The highly ornamented coffin was bought by the museum for $4 million (£3.2 million) in 2017 and was the centrepiece of the Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin exhibition that opened the following year.

But in February the coffin was seized by a New York unit investigating the trafficking of antiquities.

“Thus far our investigation has determined that this coffin is just one of hundreds of antiquities stolen by the same multinational trafficking ring,” Cyrus Vance, Manhattan’s district attorney said at the ceremony to return the coffin.

After it was taken from Egypt’s Minya region amid the political upheaval of the revolution in 2011, it passed through Dubai and Germany and on to France. There, a Paris art dealer, whose identity was not revealed, sold the 6ft (1.8m) artefact to the Met.

Egypt’s foreign minister attended the ceremony in New York where investigators revealed the “glaring inconsistencies”

“This is not only for Egyptians but this is for our common human heritage and our sense that we all share in the values and we all are one of the same international family,” Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister said.


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