Egypt restores ancient manuscript from London

CAIRO, July 13 (SEE) - The Egyptian Embassy in London on Friday succeeded in restoring an ancient Islamic Egyptian manuscript that was on sale at an auction house, MENA news agency reported.

The embassy said in a statement in order to preserve Egyptian heritage and cultural holdings, it succeeded in cooperation with Egyptian National Library and Archives in retrieving an ancient Islamic manuscript that was on sale at Bonhams auction house in London.

It pointed out that the manuscript entitled "The Summarized in Science of History" by Mohammed bin Sulaiman Masood Al Kafiji, which belongs to the Egyptian National Library and Archives, but was lost in the seventies of the last century.