Reclaiming Relics: Egypt demands artifacts’ return, cuts ties with Louvre
- October 08, 2009 11:00
The nation’s antiquities department says reliefs in the possession of the French museum were stolen in the 1980s from an ancient Egyptian tomb. Egypt also seeks the return of the 3,300- year-old bust of Nefertiti, the wife of the famed monotheistic pharaoh Akhenaten, which has been recently moved to Berlin's Neue Museum, and the Rosetta Stone, a basalt slab with an inscription that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, now in the British Museum.
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