Friday, March 1, 2019

New York’s Biggest Art Museum to Return a Stolen Artifact


by Nancy Bilyeau

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought an artifact from a Parisian art dealer — a gold-sheathed coffin from the 1st century BC — for $4 million in 2017. But now the museum has announced that it is sending its prized artifact to the Egyptian government for good. Why? The coffin was stolen fairly recently, it’s been discovered.            
                                                                            
Read the full article on The Vintage News

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