A First Look at the 36 Ancient Artifacts the US Just Handed Over to Egypt

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced last week that it had recieved 36 artifacts looted from the country and later recovered by US authorities. The pieces, the agency said, are set to be deposited with Egyptian Museum, though it did not specify if this was the older museum in Cairo, or the glitzy new Grand Egyptian Museum in nearby Giza, which finally had its grand opening earlier this month after two decades in construction and $1 billion in development costs.The collecti