Minister of
Culture
Minister of
Culture
Secretary Supreme Council of Antiquities
A German citizen handed, this week, to the Egyptian Embassy in Berlin. stones decorated with pharaonic paintings, which his father in law has taken them, without permission, from a tomb chamber in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
In his letter sent to Egyptian Ambassador in Berlin, the German citizen, who request anonymity fearing to get into trouble, said that after his father in law's death, he felt bound to return these stones back to its homeland Egypt in order to correct the wrong that his father in law has committed in 2004.
He said that this act will let his father in law's corps to rest in peace. He relates that in 2004, his father in law made a holiday trip to Egypt and visited the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and succeeded to remove these stones from an ornament in a wall and has brought them with him unnoticed to Germany. Shortly after his return to Germany, he suffered a paralysis from the 5th cervical vertebra on, cancer and an unjustified high temperature, He stayed 3 years in critical condition and died last week.
"It seems that these stones have cursed my father in law," the German citizen wrote in his letter adding that in his opinion these stones must return back to where it belongs.
The German Embassy in Berlin sent these stones to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, which handed them over to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
Dr. Zahi Hawass secretary general of the SCA has assigned an archaeological committee to check such pieces and if they are authentic artifacts, they will be exhibited at the Egyptian museum until knowing its original location at the Valley of the Kings.