[LifeStyle] Egypt recovers two artifacts from Italy

[Guest High King Eslam]

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today (Thursday) that it had received from Italy two artifacts dating back to the Greek and Roman eras.

The ministry said, in a press statement today, that the Egyptian ambassador to Italy, Hisham Badr, received the two pieces at the headquarters of the Anti-Cultural Property Crimes Unit of the Italian Gendarmerie (Carpinari) in Rome, noting that the first piece is an upper part of a pottery statue of a woman, and the other is a vase. A small piece of pottery with a wide mouth and a handle connecting the mouth to the body, dating back to the Greek and Roman eras, and they were seized in the Genoa region, Italy, through the concerned security authorities, according to what was reported by the German News Agency.

Ambassador Badr explained, during the handover and handover procedures ceremony, that this is a continuation of the constructive cooperation between the Egyptian and Italian sides to preserve the cultural heritage of the Egyptian and Roman civilizations, expressing his appreciation for this fruitful and continuous cooperation with the concerned Italian authorities in order to return more smuggled Egyptian antiquities, in line with With Egypt's efforts to recover all its antiquities smuggled abroad through illegal means.

Shaaban Abdel-Gawad, general supervisor of the “Recovered Antiquities Department,” said that the events of the case date back to December 2019, when artifacts entered Italy from different countries. Two of them belong to the ancient Egyptian civilization, and with cooperation and coordination between the “General Directorate of Recovered Antiquities” at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Office of the Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations, and the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, Egypt was able to prove its ownership of the two pieces, and that they were stolen from an archaeological site as a result of surreptitious excavations, and that they are They were smuggled out of Egypt illegally, stressing that these two pieces are not belonging to museums or archaeological stores of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and that they were stolen by excavations by surreptitiousness.

It is noteworthy that Egypt signed a bilateral agreement with Italy in the field of recovering smuggled antiquities in 2008, and Egypt succeeded in recovering 195 antiquities, in addition to 21,660 coins from Italy in 2018.

Source: Middle East

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