Egypt has efficiently recovered 67 historical artifacts and human stays from Germany, which had been handed over on Saturday, 9 November, 2024, by Ambassador Yasser Shaaban, Assistant Overseas Minister for Cultural Relations, to the Ministry of Overseas Affairs headquarters within the New Administrative Capital.
The restoration of those artifacts is a major step within the nation’s ongoing efforts to reclaim cultural treasures which have been smuggled overseas.
The retrieved artifacts painting numerous intervals of historical Egyptian historical past and embrace notable gadgets reminiscent of a mummified leg and foot, two masks, and two wall reliefs from the tomb of Minister Pek An Ren Ef, courting again to the twenty sixth dynasty in Saqqara.
Extra vital items embrace a royal bronze statue, a group of ushabti statues—which had been positioned in tombs to serve the deceased within the afterlife—and bronze statues of Osiris, the traditional Egyptian god of the useless and the underworld.
The Ministry of Overseas Affairs and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have been working alongside Egyptian diplomatic missions worldwide to reclaim smuggled artifacts.
Ambassador Shaaban confused the significance of this achievement, stating, “It is a testomony to the Egyptian authorities’s dedication to safeguarding its heritage and cultural historical past.”
Egypt has been in search of the return of the Nefertiti bust and different artifacts, together with the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum.