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A looted ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus that was on display at a United State US museum has been returned to Egypt.
The 2.9meters long Green Coffin dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned 664BC to 332BC, and belonged to a priest called Ankhenmaat before it was looted from the ABU Sir necropolis in north Egypt by a global art trafficking network, which smuggled it through Germany into the US in 2008.
A collector loaned it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2013.
The sarcophagus was repatriated after an investigation that lasted several years and was formally handed over by US diplomats at a ceremony in Cairo yesterday.
The President-General OF Obosi Community, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ike Okolo has been reportedly killed. Okolo was shot dead in a petrol station in the community by yet-to-be-identified gunmen at about 8 pm yesterday. A video circulating on the internet showed that the community leader was shot right inside his SUV, as he sat in a pool of his blood, behind the steering of […]
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