Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that Egypt has received 454 rare pieces from Myers Museum in London that had been illegally carried from Egypt in the Seventies.

These pieces were in the possession of the English family "Ron Duffy", which in turn donated them to the Myers Museum, but some family members objected to the decision as they thought that it would be better to donate them to the Egyptian Museum.

Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass said that after the failure of Director of Myers Museum Dr. Nicholas Reeves to access any documents evidencing the owning of the pieces to the English family, he contacted him immediately and told him about the desire of the museum to return the pieces to Egypt.

He pointed out that these pieces were carried from Egypt during the period between 1972 and 1988 and after the UNESCO Treaty in 1970, which has criminalized the purchase of monuments from Egypt.

The collection consists of 109 Oachopti statues, 60 fabric pharaonic pieces, 4 pottery pieces, 12 bronze coins, 99 pottery fragments with color pharaonic paints, 4 Dung beetles, 94 necklaces with colored beads, and ceramic and stones statues.