Egypt's Ambassador to Rome Hesham Badr received on Thursday two artifacts that had been smuggled to Italy in 2019.
Those are a pot and a statue embodying the bust of a woman. Both are made of pottery and belong to the Greco-Roman era.
The two pieces were not exhibited in museums or put in antiquities stores affiliated to the Supreme Council of Antiquities, but they were stolen as a result of clandestine excavation.
Over the past years, Egypt has been working through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Antiquities to recover such pieces.
Sun, May. 2, 2021
