Britain sends 25,000 ancient artefacts back to Egypt

Britain sent some 25,000 ancient artefacts back to Egypt - some dating as far back as the Stone Age.These artefacts include a stone axe that dates back 200,000 years, as well as pottery from the seventh millennium BC, which bears the fingerprints of its
producers.Retrieving the items came after ‘long negotiations’
with the University of London. These will constitute the
foundation for a collection from the (pre-dynastic)
Naqada period,’ named after a village in southern
Egypt which represented ‘one of the oldest centers of
civilization in the world’, and will be displayed at the
Ahmed Fakhri Museum, currently under construction in
Dakhla, an oasis in Egypt’s western desert
The latest recoveries bring to 31,000, the number of
relics brought back to Egypt since 2002. (Daily Mail)