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CAIRO (Reuters) - "Egypt's antiquities chief said on Sunday the return of a royal mummy, probably the pharaoh Ramses I, was a message to others to give back ancient artifacts.
"The 3,000-year-old mummy left Egypt in the 19th century and returned Saturday as a gift from the Michael C. Carlos Museum in the U.S. city of Atlanta. It was unveiled in the Cairo Museum amid an unruly scene of journalists crushing around the corpse.
"'This ... is a message to other people all over the world that they should do the same. If you do have a masterpiece in a museum outside Egypt, I think this masterpiece should come home, and home means Egypt,' said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities."
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CAIRO (Reuters) - "Egypt's antiquities chief said on Sunday the return of a royal mummy, probably the pharaoh Ramses I, was a message to others to give back ancient artifacts.
"The 3,000-year-old mummy left Egypt in the 19th century and returned Saturday as a gift from the Michael C. Carlos Museum in the U.S. city of Atlanta. It was unveiled in the Cairo Museum amid an unruly scene of journalists crushing around the corpse.
"'This ... is a message to other people all over the world that they should do the same. If you do have a masterpiece in a museum outside Egypt, I think this masterpiece should come home, and home means Egypt,' said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities."
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