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Met museum to return coffin of Nedjemankh to Egypt

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the restitution to the Egyptian government of the coffin of Nedjemankh (see photo), after recently discovering that it had been stolen in 2011. Documents that turned out to contain a fabricated history accompanied the piece, bought by the New York institution in 2017. Richly...
  Met museum to return coffin of Nedjemankh to Egypt
 
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the restitution to the Egyptian government of the coffin of Nedjemankh (see photo), after recently discovering…
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Met museum to return coffin of Nedjemankh to Egypt...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the restitution to the...