Egypt threatens to sue US museum over ancient mask

[viggo_tlaloc]

Egypt threatened on Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse years ago.

The St. Louis Art Museum has a week to turn over the 19th dynasty (1307-1196 BC) mask of Ka-nefer-nefer or face legal action, according to Zahi Hawass, secretary-

Comments

[dino_mb]

I agree that theft is theft and artefacts belong to their country of origin no matter when they were stolen.

[viggo_tlaloc]

It's a no brainer really.

[deb38]

I totally agree it's unacceptable.

[viggo_tlaloc]

:)

[adamnedsoul]

It's high time all this stuff was resolved in favour of the countries the artefacts were stolen from.

I'm sure Egypt and other countries would then happily lend pieces to museums worldwide.

[viggo_tlaloc]

It really is.

They would be more than happy if people played fairly.