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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 »
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.
Screenshot of U.S. museum with the stolen Egyptian gold coffin on display.
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