An Egyptian legal team returned from New York with two monuments retrieved from a museum and a show hose before being sold in auction, said Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni.

At a news conference held yesterday, Farouk Hosni said that the two pieces were stolen from a store housing ancient pieces and belonging to the Cairo University Faculty of Arts in the Cairo suburb of Maadi.

The legal team received a pottery jar displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and a statue for Anubis, the god of the dead from an auction house in the city, said Farouk Hosni.

[More], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, January 02, 2005.

An Egyptian legal team has retrieved two ancient artifacts from New York and returned them to Egypt, reported Egyptian news agency MENA.

Egyptian Minister of Culture Faruq Husni said the two artifacts, a pottery jar and a statue of ancient god Anubis, had been stolen from a store housing ancient pieces. They were eventually found in New York at the Metropolitan Museum and an auction house...

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