Egypt retrieves the Green Sarcophagus from the United States

Egypt received on Monday, January 2 a Green Sarcophagus recovered from the United States.

Egyptian government efforts succeeded in returning the ancient Egyptian sarcophagus which is the cover of a wooden coffin that was illegally smuggled out of Egypt.

The coffin lid is made of wood covred with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The newly reterived coffin is more than three meters long.

All the details of the reterival of the green sarcophagus were announced during a joint press conference at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Cairo, which was held by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Eissa, in the presence of the Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Cairo.