"... Eight months after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Egypt and the United States in order to protect Egyptian antiquities and combat smuggling, the US side agreed to impose restrictions on the import of smuggled Egyptian cultural property.
A senior archaeologist told Reuters that more than 4,000 registered artifacts were smuggled from Egypt since the outbreak of the 25 January 2011 revolution. ...
The ministry [of Antiquities] had also announced in June 2013 a project with the European Union to stop the smuggling of antiquities and recover stolen items through the establishment of a special body in Cairo and a similar one in the European Union. ..."
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