Met Museum says it's returning stolen coffin to Egypt
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February 17, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art says it's returning a prized artifact to Egypt after learning it was stolen from the country in 2011.
The Met said Friday that the Manhattan District Attorney's office found evidence that the museum was given a false ownership history for the gilded Coffin of Nedjemankh.
The Met bought the piece from a Paris art dealer in 2017 and displayed it until this week. Nedjemankh was a high-ranking first century BC priest.
Investigators say the Met was given fraudulent documents, including a forged 1971 Egyptian export license.
Met president Daniel...
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