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The lower half of an ancient gold coffin has been returned to the
Egyptian museum in Cairo from Germany.
The 3,300-year-old coffin has gone back after successful talks
with the state of Bavaria.
The golden coffin of Echnaton, King of the Pharaohs, has been on
show at the Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich for more than 70 years.
The treasure was discovered by archaeologists in 1907 in the Valley
of the Kings but the bottom half went missing in 1931.
A Munich Egyptologist discovered the antiquity was stolen and the
Bavarian authorities approached Egypt.
After years of negotiation, they offered to restore and return
the sarcophagus.
"It shows that when you have goodwill between two nations,
and between scholars, any historic monument will come back,"
said the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Gaballah
Ali Gaballah.
He says the return sends a signal to all those who dare to steal
from Egypt that Egypt never let's go.
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