Antique smuggling and Egypt’s efforts to recover its stolen heritage is once again putting Egypt in the news: Reuters has picked up the story that a statue of Ramses II has been returned to Egypt after it was stolen more than three decades ago. The 3.4k year-old statue will be restored by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
King Ramses II statue makes its way back to Egypt
The statue, which is now under the care of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was smuggled out of Cairo and discovered as stolen in the late 1980s or 1990s.