Egypt has succeeded in retrieving an ancient statue of Old Kingdom priest Nikaw-Ptah from Netherlands.The legless statue features the priest upright, wearing a short kilt, with his name engraved on his right arm(
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CAIRO: Egypt has succeeded in retrieving an ancient statue of Old Kingdom priest Nikaw-Ptah, which had been stolen and smuggled out of the country.
Egyptian authorities — in collaboration with the Egyptian Embassy in Amsterdam and the Dutch authorities — recovered the statue, which has now been handed over to a committee of experts at Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Shaaban Abdel-Gawad, general supervisor at the Department of Recovered Antiquities, said the statue was offered for sale at the annual European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
He said the statue was illegally excavated and was not from the collection of any museum or archaeological site of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The legless statue features the priest upright, wearing a short kilt, with his name engraved on his right arm.
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