Egypt requests return of artifacts from Sweden
On 21 January, BBC reported that the Egyptian Council of Antiquities has contacted the Ostergotlands County Museum in Sweden about the return of about 200 objects collected by the Swede Otto Smith in the 1920s from locations such as Saqqara and Luxor. The Egyptian chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, has stated that the items were illegally removed from their locations in Egypt, that they were neglected and even damaged by the museum, and that Otto Smith’s family now considers the museum to have been in breach of contract.
 

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