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Egypt has repatriated nine illegally smuggled artifacts from France which include a wooden Pharaonic mask that was seized by the French authorities at a train station in Paris. Eight of the recollected artifacts were obtained from a passenger who was travelling through Paris on his way to London in 2012, reported Al-Ahram Online. The Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations, Heba El Marasi, said that the Antiquity Ministry received the artifacts on Thursday, after efforts undertaken by the Egyptian…