Restituiri: vas mameluc

Courtesy The British Museum

Two Mamluk mosque lamps, stolen from the Egyptian national collection in 2014, have been returned to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities from the United Arab Emirates in a ceremony in Cairo, according to the Art Newspaper. They will now be housed in the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.The two medieval lamps, the likes of which can fetch up to $2 million at auction, had been stolen from storage facilities in Cairo and replaced with replicas.