Egypt said Sunday it would ask museums abroad to temporarily send back some its most precious artifacts including the Rosetta Stone and bust of Nefertiti to be put on display here.
The country’s chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, said the Foreign Ministry would send letters this week to France, Germany, the United States and Great Britain requesting that the ancient artifacts be loaned temporarily to Egypt.
Hawass has previously demanded that many of the artifacts be returned permanently to Egypt, claiming some of them were taken illegally.
Read full article (International Herald Tribune, April 30, 2007)
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