Egypt will be receiving 19 artifacts dating to the era of King Tutankhamen after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City agreed to return them, local media reported. The artifacts will arrive in Cairo on Tuesday. Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) signed a deal last November with the museum following long negotiations, the state-run MENA said. Egypt has been pushing for the return of its antiquities, most notably Queen Nefertiti's bust from Berlin and the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum in London. Egypt has accused foreign powers of stealing major artifacts during the past century, especially during the British occupation of the country. The objects being returned from New York include a bronze statue of a dog, only two centimeters in height and part of a sphinx shaped bracelet MENA says was owned by a family member of Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who famously unearthed the tomb of Tutankhamen. The artifacts, according to officials, will be put on display at the Egyptian museum. BM
