The brightly painted wooden sarcophagus was smuggled to the US by a global art trafficking network.
The 2.9m long "Green Coffin" belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest called AnkhenmaatThe 2.9m long "Green Coffin" dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned 664BC to 332BC, and belonged to a priest called Ankhenmaat.A collector loaned it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2013.
"Today's ceremony is emblematic of the long history of co-operation between the United States and Egypt on antiquities protection and cultural heritage preservation," said US chargé d'affaires in Egypt, Daniel Rubinstein.
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