Al-Ahram Weekly Online   9 - 15 March 2006
Issue No. 785
Heritage
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Whose mask is it, anyway?
Several international experts are claiming that a 3,000-year-old cartonnage mask on display at the St Louis Art Museum in the United States was smuggled out of Egypt. Nevine El-Aref relates its mysterious provenance

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