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Kuwait returns 5 smuggled artifacts to Egypt

STORY: Kuwait returns 5 smuggled artifacts to Egypt DATELINE: June 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Kuwait City CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. Egyptian ambassador Osama Shaltout in the Kuwait National Museum to signs to receive the smuggled artifacts 2. A snapshot of the antiquities that will be delivered to Egypt 3. Egypt ambassador signs to receive the smuggled antiquities 4. A group photo of the Kuwaiti and Egyptian officials 5. Workers transporting smuggled antiquities 6. A snapshot of the artifacts that will be delivered to Egypt STORYLINE: Kuwait returned on Thursday five smuggled Pharaonic artifacts to Egypt, a Kuwaiti official said. Sultan Al-Duwaish, head of Artifacts and Museums Department in the National Council for Culture Arts and Literature (NCCAL) of Kuwait, handed over the artifacts to the Egyptian ambassador to Kuwait at the Kuwait National Museum. The five Egyptian artifacts were smuggled from Egypt in 2019 and confiscated by the Customs Department in Kuwait Airport, Al-Duwaish said.

Kuwait returns 5 smuggled artifacts to Egypt

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