US authorities have returned a stolen coffin to Egypt, two years after it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 2,100-year-old coffin of a priest called Nedjemankh was featured in an exhibit housing artefacts from Egypt. The stolen antique was sold to the museum by a global art trafficking network, which used fraudulent documents. The gilded coffin was looted and smuggled out of Egypt in 2011. The coffin, which dates back to the 1st Century BC, was bought by the prestigious museum for $4m from a Parisian art dealer.
US authorities have returned a stolen coffin to Egypt, two years after it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 2,100-year-old coffin of a priest called Nedjemankh was featured in an exhibit housing artefacts from Egypt. The stolen antique was sold to the museum by a global art trafficking network, which used fraudulent documents. The gilded coffin was looted and smuggled out of Egypt in 2011. The coffin, which dates back to the 1st Century BC, was bought by the prestigious museum for $4m from a Parisian art dealer.
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