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| Cyprus hands Egypt ancient artefacts stolen in 1980s |
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The Director of Cyprus Antiquities handed over to Egypt a collection of 14 artifacts that were stolen and illegally smuggled out of Egypt in the late 1980s and were seized by the Cypriot authorities in the city of Nicosia.
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CAIRO (AFP).- Cyprus has handed back to Egypt 14 ancient artefacts stolen and smuggled abroad in the late 1980s after authorities on the Mediterranean island seized them, Egypt's government said Tuesday.
The artefacts include an alabaster base "decorated with the name of King Ramses II in addition to 13 ushabti figurines and amulets of different shapes," the antiquities ministry said, citing an official.
Interpol had informed Egypt of the objects' seizure in 2017, the ministry said.
The ministry said that it ultimately succeeded "through diplomatic and legal efforts" to prove its ownership of these artefacts.
The items arrived in Cyprus in 1986 and were recovered in the capital Nicosia, it added.
It did not say when the artefacts were returned exactly, but that it took place at an event in Egypt attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Greek and Cypriot counterparts.
Sisi met Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Alexandria on Monday and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday.
© Agence France-Presse
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