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According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Antiquities, the Egyptian Embassy in Amsterdam received a limestone bust which had been stolen from an illegal excavation. The artifact had also been illegally smuggled out of the country. Shaaban Abdel-Gawad, General Supervisor of Antiquities Repatriation Department, stated that the Ministry of Antiquities had observed and monitored this bust among the objects on display at the an art exhibition in Amsterdam, on March 2018. According to Abdel-Gawad, the Ministry immediately…
