On Thursday, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that the Egyptian Embassy in Italy had recovered two antique pieces from the Greek and Roman eras that were smuggled from Egypt into Italy. The recovery falls into the framework of Egypt’s relentless efforts to recover Egyptian antiquities smuggled abroad. The two artifacts date back to the Greco-Roman era, and were seized in the Genoa region of Italy by security authorities. General Supervisor of the Recovered Antiquities Department, Shaaban Abdel Gawad, said that the case dated back to December 2019, when multiple artifacts were smuggled into Italy from different countries, including two from Egypt. Egypt signed a bilateral agreement with Italy in the field of recovering smuggled antiquities in 2008, through which Egypt succeeded in recovering 195 artifacts, in addition to 21,660 coins from Italy in 2018.

Source: Egypt Independent April 29, 2021 15:11 UTC