Switzerland on Monday returned a fragment of a more than 3,400-year-old statue of Pharaoh Ramses II to egypt which was stolen decades ago from a temple in Abydos.
It was the director of the Federal Office of Culture (OFC), Carine Bachmann, who handed over this “important archaeological asset” to the Egyptian embassy in Switzerland on Monday in Bern.
The stone sculpture of Pharaoh Ramses II to which the returned fragment belongs is part of a group statue where the king sits alongside various Egyptian deities, according to the OFC.
