Mughal manuscripts thief arrested
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Egyptian authorities have recovered stolen pages torn from an illustrated Mughal-era manuscript from an Australian woman trying to smuggle them out of the country, Egypt’s antiquities authority said.
Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief archaeologist and the general secretary of the Supreme Antiquities Council, said in a statement the pages may be from a book dating from the Indian Mughal period, which began around the early 16th century.
The manuscripts will be returned to the Islamic Arts Museum in Cairo, the statement said.
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