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The Seized Atlas & Some Of The Seized Coins
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The
Archaeological Unit at Egypt’s Red Sea port of Safaga seized 204 coins from
different historical eras that were being smuggled from Egypt to Dubai, according
to Dr Aymen Ashmawi, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the
Ministry of Antiquities.
Ahmed
El-Rawi, head of Central Administration of the Archaeological Units in Egyptian
Ports, said that the coins include 17 metal coins from the Graeco-Roman era,
one from the Umayyad period, two from the Ottoman era and 10 from Khedival
Egypt.
Coins
from other countries were also seized.
Mohamed
Etman, director of the Bahariya Archaeological Unit, said that the unit also
confiscated an old Atlas Book from 1922.
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