CAIRO.- bracelet inlay in the form of a sphinx
CAIRO.- bracelet inlay in the form of a sphinx made of Lapis Lazuli that is amongst the 19 objects identified as originating from the tomb of King Tutankahmun that are being handed back to Egypt by the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. According to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on 30 July 2011, Deputy Head of the Phoranic Sector is coming back from the US with 19 ancient Egyptian objects that have been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection since the early 20th century All of these small-scale objects, which range from study samples to a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog and a sphinx bracelet-element, attributed to Tutankhamunâ×s tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. EPA/EGYPTIAN SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES