In a statement on Monday, May 8, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced that it received four rare Egyptian artifacts that were recovered from Italian authorities.
The four artifacts include a pharaonic painting decorated with hieroglyphs, a small pottery vessel, an upper part of a small statue of a woman made of pottery, and finally a piece known as a “Column of Djed” belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization, the statement added.
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Cultural Relations, Ambassador Omar Selim, handed over the four artifacts, which date back to different ears of Egypt’s history after the Italian authorities gave them to the Egyptian embassy in Rome.
The Ministry’s statement read: These pieces were handed over by the officials of the Turin Museum to the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Rome in preparation for their return to their home country.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirms that, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, it gives more attention to recovering Egyptian antiquities within the framework of the national plan to restore the historical, archaeological, and artistic heritage smuggled outside the country.
