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Britain sends 25,000 ancient artefacts back to Egypt
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:54 AM on 05th March 2010
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Britain has sent some 25,000 ancient artefacts back to Egypt - some dating
as far back as the stone age.
The artefacts returned to Cairo aboard an Egyptian flight on Wednesday,
Egypt's culture minister Faruq Hosni said in a statement.
They include a stone axe that dates back 200,000 years as well as pottery
from the seventh millennium BC which bears the finger prints of its
producers, the ministry said.
The artefacts include this stone head of a hand axe from 200 thousand
years BC
Retrieving the items came after 'long negotiations' with the University of
London, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said.
Mr Hawass said the artefacts 'will constitute the foundation for a
collection from the (pre-dynastic) Naqada period,' named after a village in
southern Egypt which represented 'one of the oldest centres of civilisation in
the world.'
They will will be displayed at the Ahmed Fakhri Museum, currently under
construction in Dakhla, an oasis in Egypt's western desert
The latest recoveries bring to 31,000 the number of relics brought back to
Egypt since 2002, Mr Hawass added.