Three unpublished stone monuments returned homeland

Abstract EN

Publication of three characteristic inscribed stone objects that were returned back from Europe between years 2015 and 2016.

The first stone piece represents a Late Period sandstone votive stela.

The second object appears as a survived part of a wall came from a lost temple built in Mangabad at Asyut.

It is displayed in Sohag regional museum.

The third object represents an attractive double black statue that returned back from Belgium.

The first and the third objects are currently exhibited in Kafr El Sheikh regional museum.

After the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 these stone monuments were looted and smuggled out of Egypt to find a marketable market in Europe.

Before five years ago the Egyptian authorities succeeded in retrieving these monuments from Europe.

Thus, these three wonderful artefacts are just few of hundreds of antiquities stolen by multinational trafficking rings ( ).

The double black statue was found with a Belgian dealer together with another one that was discovered in Memphis cemetery by a teamwork of the inspectorate of Memphis and then it was stolen from the local storerooms.

However, all of these stone monuments were actually outcomes from illegal excavations.