The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry said on Monday that the sarcophagus lid was a Greek-Roman portrait and believed to be a fragment of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

The works - spanning hundreds of years of Egyptian civilization after the New York District Attorney's Office and the U.S. security agency resumed work for three years at the New York consulate.

The series includes wooden and gilded sarcophagus lids, which date back more than 5,500 years, and part of the temple is considered to belong to Queen Hatshepsut and the portrait of Greco-Roman Mummy by Fayyoum, a southern city known for its unique Greco-Roman art.

Trove also has jewels carefully crafted about 2400 years ago, and during the peak of Egypt's power, there is also a granite foot fragmentation dating to the La Messide dynasty and small ivory and stone statues.

A rare gold coin dates back to two thousand years, the reign of Ptolemy I - one of the generals of Alexander the Great, and The Last Dynasty of Egypt - Also part of the series.

The ministry has posted five images of artifacts on social media.

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According to the ministry's statement, the antiquity began to be occupied in a separate investigation in 2022 and was held at the Egyptian consulate in New York until its return to Cairo on Sunday.

Officials have not revealed exactly how the characters left Egypt or surfaced in the United States

However, this kind of theft is not uncommon. During the 2011 uprising, expelling long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak, the raiders ransacked museums and archaeological sites in chaos, energizing thousands of priceless debris.

Many of these artifacts later appeared in international markets or in private collections.

Egyptian authorities said they have successfully brought home nearly 30,000 artifacts over the past decade.

In 2023, an ancient wooden sarcophagus is Back to Egypt In the U.S. authorities determined it was plundered a few years ago.

The year before that, stone sculptures found to Memphis, Tennessee were found to be artifacts of a century-old history in Egypt. The workpiece is Confiscated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers.

In 2019, a stolen ancient Egyptian coffin was eventually sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for $4 million Back to Egypt.