The Interior Ministry arrested an employee suspected of possessing 1,118 pieces of antiquities in his residence in Assiut Governorate, Upper Egypt, for the purpose of trafficking.
In Sudan, the plunder of ancient sites and millenia-long cultural history is being looted and smuggled abroad, due to weak legal deterrents, lax regulations, ongoing civil unrest and widespread instability.
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