Artifacts Smuggling

Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 - 03:00 GMT

The ruling comes in one of the largest antiquities smuggling cases to hit Egypt’s cultural heritage sector, with three defendants charged with conspiring with an unidentified accomplice to smuggle the stolen artifacts out of the country.

Antiquities smuggler involved in selling an Egyptian sarcophagus to an international museum arrested

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 - 01:10 GMT

Dib was the main player in the illegal smuggling of the Egyptian sarcophagus and its sale to the Metropolitan Museum.

Five ways Africa’s antiquities end up in Europe

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 - 02:34 GMT

Africa has suffered greatly from Western colonialism. During this period, colonialism stole the past of these nations and their future.

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