Egypt Recovers Two Artifacts from Italy

Within the strenuous efforts exerted by Egypt to recover the Egyptian artifacts smuggled abroad, Ambassador Hesham Badr, Egypt's Ambassador to Italy has received two Egyptian artifacts at the headquarter of the Unit of Fighting Crimes of Cultural Prosperities affiliated to the Italian gendarmerie  (the Carabinieri) in Rome.

Recovering the illegally smuggled artifacts proves the great attention paid by the Egyptian state and its institutions to preserving its heritage and cultural history.

This shows the role played by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in the field of recovering the smuggled Egyptian antiquities.

The two artifacts dated back to the Greek and Roman eras in Egypt.

The first piece was the upper part of a pottery statue of a woman and the second piece is a pottery small jar with a wide nozzle with a hilt that links the nozzle to the body of the jar.

The two artifacts were seized in Genoa, Italy, by the concerned security authorities there.

Ambassador Hesham Badr on behalf of the Egyptian side and General Roberto Riccardi, Commander of the Cultural Property Crime Unit at the Carabinieri, chaired the ceremony of delivery and receipt procedures of the two artifacts.

Badr explained during the ceremony,  that the recovering of the two artifacts came as a sign of constructive cooperation between the Italian and Egyptian sides to preserve the cultural heritage of the Egyptian and Roman civilizations.

He expressed his appreciation for this fruitful and continuous cooperation with the concerned Italian authorities in order to recover more smuggled Egyptian antiquities, in line with Egypt's efforts to restore all its illegally smuggled antiquities abroad.