FLASH NEWS
Belgium returns 2,000-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt
2025-07-14 12:00:28 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
Belgian authorities said they had returned a nearly 2,000-year-old sarcophagus to Egypt, a decade after it was seized by police in Brussels.
Prosecutors said the artifact, along with a piece of an ancient wooden beard, was presented to the Egyptian ambassador at a ceremony in the Belgian capital.
"After 10 years of investigations and procedures, it is a true act of justice to return to its place of origin an object that was illegally appropriated by its heirs," said Julien Moinil, the public prosecutor of Brussels.
The artifacts were seized by Belgian police in 2015, after Interpol issued a notice following a request from a court in Egypt, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, they were placed in the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels.
A statement said the wooden sarcophagus, which dates from the Ptolemaic period between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, "undoubtedly belonged to a member of Egyptian high society."
"The choice of materials and careful execution testify to extraordinary craftsmanship," she said.
He added that hieroglyphs on the sarcophagus made it possible to identify the former occupant as a man named Pa-di-Hor-pa-khered and that he was portrayed as transformed into Osiris, the Lord of the underworld.
Happening now...
The Ukraine summit that ignored the tough questions
Nga Owen Matthews, SPECTATOR
ideas
top
Alfa recipes
services
- POLICE129
- STREET POLICE126
- AMBULANCE112
- FIREFIGHTER128