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(1 Oct 2019) Egypt is displaying a gilded ancient coffin returned to the country last week from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, after U.S. investigators determined it to be a looted antiquity.
The coffin once held the mummy of Nedjemankh, a priest in the Ptolemaic Period some 2,000 years ago.
It was put on display on Tuesday at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo.
U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Egypt Thomas Goldberger attended the ceremony.
Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Ananni said the repatriation of this "unique, wonderful" artifact shows a "very strong solidarity" between Egypt and the U.S.
The Met bought the artifact from a Paris art dealer in 2017 for about four million US dollars and made it the centerpiece of an exhibition.
It was removed in February. The Met has apologised to Egypt.

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