Banteay Srei lintel at the Guimet Museum in Paris, France (Photo: Musée Guimet)The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has made it his mission to track down Egyptian antiquities he believes were wrongly removed from the nation and to bring them home.
Suzanne Presto, VOA
Washington
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, has made it his mission to track down Egyptian antiquities he believes were wrongly removed from the nation and to bring them home. Hawass is hosting a two-day conference in Cairo (April 7-8) for other nations also seeking the return of antiquities and artifacts.
Hawass beamed with pride and pleasure in Washington last month when he accepted the return of an apparently smuggled ancient Egyptian coffin that a U.S. customs agent had intercepted at Miami airport.
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