Cyprus hands Egypt ancient artefacts stolen in 1980s

Cyprus has handed back to Egypt 14 ancient artefacts stolen and smuggled abroad in the late 1980s after authorities on the Mediterranean island seized them, Egypt’s government said Tuesday.

The artefacts include an alabaster base “decorated with the name of King Ramses II in addition to 13 ushabti figurines and amulets of different shapes,” the antiquities ministry said, citing an official.

Interpol had informed Egypt of the objects’ seizure in 2017, the ministry said.

The ministry said that it ultimately succeeded “through diplomatic and legal efforts” to prove its ownership of these artefacts.

The items arrived in Cyprus in 1986 and were recovered in the capital Nicosia, it added.

It did not say when the artefacts were returned exactly, but that it took place at an event in Egypt attended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Greek and Cypriot counterparts.

Sisi met Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Alexandria on Monday and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday.


http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2018/05/02/Cyprus-hands-Egypt-ancient-artefacts-stolen-in-1980s.html






イギリス領になってからキプロス人と言葉が通じない。

今日ニュースを発見しました。

「本当のエジプト人だ」と言い張るギリシャ人は、
実は、本当にエジプトから連れてこられた捕虜だそうです。


捕虜と言っても、その人は古代エジプトを記念する石の人形になってしまいました。


キプロスはなぜ古代エジプトやるのか？→石の人形になりたいから。


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Cyprus ancient Egypt

In the late Island include the name of King Ramses II citing "Cyprus” to prove in the capital Nicosia,

It took place Cypriot Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Alexandria.

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