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Egypt retrieves smuggled antiquities from Spain

by Gary Nurkin last modified 12-14-2008 11:34 PM

CAIRO, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Egypt has identified three pieces of smuggled antiquity and will get them back form a museum in Spain, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawwas said Thursday.

Egypt retrieves smuggled antiquities from Spain                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
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    CAIRO, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Egypt has identified three pieces of smuggled
antiquity and will get them back form a museum in Spain, Secretary General of
the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawwas said Thursday.
                                                                       
                                                                       
    The SCA will send a delegation to the Spanish city of Barcelona on Friday
to have the antiquities back, Hawwas said in a press release.         
                                                                       
                                                                       
    The three pieces, including a man' basalt statue, a fragmentary granite
statue of an Egyptian noble and part of a color-decorated wall of the tomb of
Ken-Amun, date back to the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, said Hawwas.
                                                                       
                                                                       
    In recent years, Egypt has exerted unremitting efforts and managed to
retrieve more than 5,200 stolen antiquities from foreign countries.  


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