US EditionNetherlands to Return 3,500-Year-Old Sculpture Stolen from Egypt
The 3,500-year-old sculpture, linked to Pharaoh Thutmose III, was found at a 2022 Maastricht art fair and will be returned by year-end, Dutch officials said.
- On Sunday, Dutch Caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof pledged the Netherlands will return a 3,500-year-old stone head to Egypt at the Grand Egyptian Museum opening.
- Inspectorate findings show the Dutch Information & Heritage Inspectorate says it is "highly likely" the stone head was plundered during the Arab Spring and surfaced at The European Fine Art Foundation fair, Maastricht, in 2022.
- Following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined the sculpted head, believed to depict a high-ranking official from Pharaoh Thutmose III, was stolen and exported illegally, and the dealer relinquished it.
- The government expects to hand the stone head to the Egyptian ambassador to the Netherlands at the end of this year, affirming the Netherlands' commitment to returning heritage to original owners.
- With 100,000 artefacts, the Grand Egyptian Museum, first proposed in 1992 and costing around $1.2bn, reflects national heritage while prominent Egyptologists hope it will boost repatriation demands.
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Stone sculpture head of an Egyptian official CAIRO, EGYPT—BBC News reports that Dick Schoof, outgoing prime minister of the Netherlands, has pledged to repatriate a 3,500-year-old sculpture thought to have been looted from Egypt in 2011 or 2012. The sculpture depicts a high-ranking official under Thutmose III, who was pharaoh between about 1479 and 1425 B.C. The stone head was recovered at an arts and antiques fair in 2022 in the Dutch city of M…
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While the Grand Egyptian Museum has just opened its doors, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced that the country will return a 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. ...
Netherlands says it will return stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt after Grand Egyptian Museum opening
A day after attending the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the leader of the Netherlands said an ancient statue discovered at an art fair would be returned.
The 3,500-year-old stone head was probably stolen during the Arab Spring, large protests in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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