Egypt receives ancient artifacts from France

Egyptian prosecutors called smuggling a "crime" against the Egyptian people and thanked their French counterparts for their cooperation.
A visitor uses her phone to take a picture of artifacts near a relief dating to the reign of the ancient Egyptian 20th dynasty Pharaoh Ramases III (1184-1053 BC), on display at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in the district of Fustat of Egypt's capital, Cairo, on May 26, 2021.
A visitor uses her phone to take a picture of artifacts near a relief dating to the reign of the ancient Egyptian 20th dynasty Pharaoh Ramases III (1184-1053 BC), on display at the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in the district of Fustat of Egypt's capital, Cairo, on May 26, 2021. - AMIR MAKAR/AFP via Getty Images
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Egypt received 114 artifacts from France on Wednesday that had been smuggled out of the country.

“The crime of smuggling artifacts is one of the crimes which befalls all the Egyptian people,” the Egyptian Public Prosecution said in a statement.

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