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Cairo: Egypt has recovered about 5,000 artifacts, which were earlier smuggled from the country. The pieces, which were in the possession of the Holy Bible Museum in the US, were handed over to Egypt after efforts from the ministries of tourism and antiquities as well as foreign affairs in conjunction with US authorities, according to Egyptian officials.
The collection includes manuscripts and pieces of papyrus with texts written in the Coptic language, hieratic and demotic script, and the Greek language.
They also include manuscripts of Christian religious prayers written in Arabic and Coptic together or Arabic only, the Egyptian officials added.
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The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC
The Egyptian government and the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, say that around 5,000 artefacts acquired by the museum–manuscript fragments, funeral masks, parts of coffins and the heads of statues–have been returned to Egypt as a result of evidence that they were acquired illegally.
The handover comes after years of negotiations over the ancient objects, mostly papyri that is of major interest to scholars. Details have not been disclosed about how the items left Egypt, but many treasured objects are thought to have been illegally shipped from the country amid the political turmoil of the 2011 uprising against then-President Hosni Mubarak or other chaotic circumstances and to have later ended up on the international market. For years, such objects offered for sale online have been under scrutiny by the US federal government.
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