Artifacts

Despite its origin, the decree is seemingly ordinary. Written by a royal scribe named Hamad, it instructs an individual named Khidr to exchange textiles for livestock.

Since the original 2023 announcement of the theft, the museum has recovered 654 of these, the most significant of which was 268 gems returned all at once by the United States.

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers.

The sword was eventually transferred to Elisha Medical Center in Haifa for an advanced CT scan to examine the blade’s condition without causing it futher harm.

The stolen artifacts included a 26th Dynasty rare painted wooden Egyptian cat figure, a 3,300-year-old necklace, a collar, and a mummy mask.

INAH specialists were sent photographs of the finds and conducted a preliminary review of the three, confirming that they indeed “form part of Mexico’s archaeological heritage.”

Through carbon dating, researchers have ruled that the artifacts are between approximately 11,700 and 12,900 years old, a time when Ice Age temperatures had returned after a brief warm period.

As the number of first-hand witnesses dwindles, artifacts from the Holocaust are being carefully collected and preserved to continue telling the story

The sculpture depicting Pharaoh Thutmose III appeared at a Dutch art fair in 2022 and is to be returned to the Egyptian ambassador by the end of the year.

The break-in occurred around 3:30 a.m. on 15 October, when one or more intruders slipped into the museum’s 9,000-square-meter warehouse outside downtown Oakland.