[CPProt.net] Egyptian authorities arrested owner ouvenir shop near pyramids plateau who tried to sell a mummy for $10m

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Mummy for sale for $10m
27/12/2005 21:06  - (SA)   


Cairo - Egyptian authorities arrested the owner of a souvenir shop near the
pyramids plateau after receiving a tip that he had tried to sell a mummy for
$10m, said a source from the Tourism and Antiquities police on Tuesday. 

Shop owner Ahmed al-Jabari was arrested on Monday after trying to sell items
dating to the Pharoanic era, but on inspecting the premises police found no
sign of the mummy in a sarcophagus that he had allegedly offered to sell
earlier. 

Police seized from al-Jabari 126 items believed to be Pharaonic antiquities,
among them 27 necklaces, the most important of which was made from gold and
designed in the shape of a bird, alongside 18 amulets. 

In another incident of antiquities-related malfeasance, police took into
custody on Monday a group of antiquities vendors who were conducting illegal
digs in the desert near Minya, 250km south of Cairo. 

Among those taken into custody was a police officer. The number of those
arrested was not being released. 

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