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Museum Agrees to Give Back King Tut's Treasures

Nineteen artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after more than half a century at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Egypt's antiquities authority said Saturday.

The trove includes a miniature bronze dog and a sphinx-shaped bracelet ornament, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement.

The move, scheduled for Tuesday, is the result of an agreement between the two institutions last year to return the objects to Egypt....

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