Will Egypt manage to bring home all smuggled artifacts? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Ahmed Gomaa

Dec 31, 2021

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) presents Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (R) with stolen Egyptian artifacts that were smuggled to Israel, at Tahrir Palace in Cairo on Dec. 9, 2021. — Israeli Foreign Minister and alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L) presents Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (R) with stolen Egyptian artifacts that were smuggled to Israel and returned to Egypt, during their meeting at Tahrir Palace in Cairo on Dec. 9, 2021. — MOHAMED HOSSAM/AFP via Getty Images

A picture taken on January 30, 2020, shows a collection of Ushabtis or funerary figurines discovered among many archeological finds in 3000-year-old communal tombs dedicated to high priests, in Al-Ghoreifa in Tuna al-Jabal in the Minya governorate. - Egypt's antiquities ministry unveiled 16 tombs of ancient high priests containing 20 sarcophagi, including one dedicated to the sky god Horus, discovered at the archaeological site, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) south of Cairo. The shared tombs were dedicate

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