Will the Beautiful One Come home?
“The director of the Egyptian antiquities department at the Berlin museum will come (to Egypt) on December 8 to discuss the right of Egyptians to the return of the statue of Nefertiti,” Zahi Hawass told journalists on a visit to Luxor.
Hawass said the Berlin museum official “will bring evidence that the statue left Egypt through legal channels.”
“Our side will highlight documents showing the statue left in an illegal way, including ones that prove that in the allocation of antiquities discovered by a German team, (nothing) indicated the presence of a statue in the German share,” he said.
Egypt first requested its return in 1930 but successive German governments have refused.
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