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New York Museum to Return King Tut Relics to Egypt
Egypt and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, announce that objects in the museum that had been taken from the tomb of the famed pharaoh Tutankhamun would be sent back to Egypt.The museum agree to recognize Egypt's right to 19 relics in its possession since early last century, accoording to a joint statement by the Met and the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt.
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A "Nested Fetus Coffin," is displayed as part of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit in New York, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The boy king stirred a sensation in New York City 31 years ago. This time, a Times Square exhibition cont
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New York Museum to Return King Tut Relics to Egypt
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A picture distributed Tuesday, May 10, 2005 by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities shows an ancient statue of Tutankhamun. Three teams from France, the United States and Egypt, using a high-tech forensic investigation to reconstruct King Tut's face and
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Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007. The mummy of the 19-year-old phar