December 12, 2010
Tutankhamun treasures to be returned to Egypt
Further coverage of the decision by New York’s Metropolitan Museum to return 19 artefacts to Egypt.
From:
The Daily Star (Dhaka)
Friday, November 12, 2010
New York Museum to return artefacts to EgyptThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is returning to Egypt 19 small objects that were entombed for centuries with ancient Egypt’s “boy king,” officials announced Wednesday.
A small bronze dog and a sphinx bracelet-element were attributed with certainty to Tutankhamun’s splendid burial chamber, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of Kings, the museum and the Supreme Council of Antiques of Egypt said.
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