Berlin Police have seized dozens of artefacts from ancient Egypt at a freight depot here after a tip off from Egyptian diplomats.

The treasures were being consigned from Switzerland to the US after being sold for two million dollars. They were seized at the end of October but this was not made public at the time.

Prosecutors have since established that the artefacts left Egypt in the 1970s.

Egyptology treasures seized at freight depot, newKerala.com, India, December 01, 2005.