The Belgian authorities announced that they handed over to Egypt a 3,000 -year -old sarcophagus, seized by police in Brussels in 2015. “After 10 years of investigations and legal procedures, it is really an act of justice to return to his country of origin,” The Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office said that the sarcophagus and a smaller artifact – a wooden beard model – were handed over to the Egyptian ambassador at a special event in the Belgian capital. These antiquities had been seized by the Belgian police in 2015, following the mobilization of Interpol informed about the Egyptian authorities. They have since been kept at the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels. The wooden sarcophagus, dating from the Ptolemaic period (4th-3rd century BC), “undoubtedly belonged to a member of high society” in ancient Egypt, the statement said. It is also noted that the hieroglyphs in the sarcophagus referred to the holder as a “Pa-D-Hor-Pa-Erd” translated into “him […]
Source: News Beast
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