It’s a mixed bag in the foreign press this morning,with the Guardian and the Independent chronicling how the students of a school in Scotland came to unearth a collection of 18 Egyptian antiquities over three separate occasions between 1952 and 1984. The Guardian published a piece by Sanaa Seif, the sister of prominent Egyptian activist and political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah, reflecting on their family’s efforts to secure her brother’s release, the challenges of making a prison visit one year ago, and the impact of his captivity on their family.
Mystery of why Egyptian treasures found buried in Scotland intrigues the global press
One of the unearthed ancient Egyptian treasures was initially mistaken for a potato