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Egypt: Stolen Gold Coffin of Ancient Priest Goes Home
allAfrica, 26 September 2019
The Egyptian relic is finally going home. Read more »
Stolen Gold Coffin of Ancient Priest Returned to Egypt
An ancient gilded coffin once featured in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is on its way back to Egypt. The museum had purchased the coffin from a Paris art dealer in July 2017, but later found out that it had been stolen.
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