Egyptian officials recover ancient limestone bust that was smuggled to Holland

Egypt’s embassy in Amsterdam has received a limestone statue from the First Intermediate Period which was stolen and smuggled out of the country in the 1990s.The recovered statue [Credit: Egypt. Ministry of Antiquities]Shaaban Abdel Gawad, supervisor general of the Antiquities Repatriation Department at the Ministry of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the statue was first noticed by the department in March 2018 when it was put on...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for