Egypt to recover King Tut’s objects from Metropolitan Museum

Nineteen artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after more than half a century at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The trove includes a miniature bronze dog and a sphinx-shaped bracelet ornament.

The move, scheduled for Tuesday, is the result of an agreement between the two institutions last year to return the objects to Egypt.

The pieces were sent to New York in 1948 when the Metropolitan Museum closed its expedition house in Egypt.

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