US
museum agrees mummy's return
A
museum in the United States has agreed to return what is thought
to be the mummy of the Pharoah, Rameses I, nearly 150 years
after it was taken from Egypt.
Its
whereabouts only came to light after the Egyptian authorities
set up a bureau to track stolen relics.
The
mummy which is more than 2,000 years old was stolen from Egypt
in 1859, at a time when trade in antiquities from the region
was rife.
It
eventually ended up in a university museum in Atlanta, Georgia,
which has now agreed after months of negotiations to hand
it back.
Egypt
has threatened to suspend scientific cooperation with other
American museums unless all stolen relics are returned.
From
the newsroom of the BBC World Service
