Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is following up the theft of antiquities from the British Museum in London.
Chair of trustees at the British Museum trustees George Osborne announced mid-August that 2,000 objects were believed to have been stolen.
Later, the chairman said that the museum has begun to recover some of the stolen items.
The incident resulted in the resignation of museum director Hartwig Fischer.
Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary General Mostafa Waziry said there is ongoing communication with the British side and the management of the British Museum to find out the details of the pieces that were stolen.
“Egyptian authorities are awaiting the results of the ongoing investigations, which will be provided to the Antiquities Ministry as soon as they are finished,” Waziry said.
“The Egyptian state, with all its institutions, will continue to take all necessary measures to recover any antiquity proven to have left Egypt illegally, and its great keenness to preserve Egyptian antiquities and Egypt’s ancient heritage,” Waziry added.
Since 2014, Egypt has recovered more than 30,000 artefacts. In 2019, the coffin of Nedjemankh was recovered from the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This year, Egypt recovered the coffin of the priest Ankh In Maat, known as the Green Coffin from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in Texas in addition to the head of mummy and 14 pieces recovered from Paris and a head of King Rameses II from Switzerland.
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