The
Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on Tuesday that it has retrieved
from the United Kingdom four artifacts that had been stolen and smuggled out of
Egypt.
The
artifacts have now been restored in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the ministry
added in a statement.
Shaaban
Abdel Gawad, a ministry official, said that two of the artifacts were displayed
at an auction house in the UK while the two other pieces were in the possession
of an antiquities dealer in London.
Two
of the artifacts were stolen during the security mayhem that prevailed in the
wake of the 2011 Uprising, which resulted in the ousting of long-time president
Hosni Mubarak, while the other two were stolen in 2013, according to the
ministry.
In
2011, Egypt witnessed a period of security chaos during which the rate of
antiquities thefts increased by 90 per cent compared to the pre-2011 rate, according
to previous statements made by Egyptian officials.
Egypt
seeks to regain illegally smuggled antiquities that date back to the pharaonic
era.
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