Egypt, US renew cultural property agreement for five years

Egypt and the US have renewed their Cultural Property Agreement on Tuesday for another five years, extending a decade of cooperation aimed at combating the trafficking of Egyptian antiquities.

The agreement was renewed by US Chargé d’Affaires Robert Silverman and Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.

Over the past ten years, US law enforcement authorities have returned more than 5,000 trafficked artefacts to Egypt.