Egypt’s stolen treasures: Will a new French law bring them home?

The French National Assembly’s passage of a law in January facilitating the return of looted antiquities from the colonial era has reopened the issue of recovering Egyptian artifacts held in European museums, according to certain Egyptian archaeologists. Among these are the Dendera Zodiac, the Rosetta Stone, and the bust of Nefertiti. A senior archaeologist at … The post Egypt’s stolen treasures: Will a new French law bring them home? appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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