{"id":446319,"date":"2026-08-28T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446319\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:44:13","slug":"fbi-returns-48-stolen-egyptian-artifacts-found-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446319\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Returns 48 Stolen Egyptian Artifacts Found in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian treasures tracked down by the FBI\u2019s Art Team were returned home after crackdown<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI returned 48 cultural artifacts to Egyptian officials after an investigation found the objects had been illicitly trafficked to art collectors in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection of relics that made their way back to Egypt includes carved figures, amulets and tomb equipment dating to the Pharaonic, Roman and Coptic periods, the FBI says. The case came to light after a member of the art community came upon the pieces and discovered that the artwork arrived in the U.S. nefariously. That person called the FBI. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBILosAngeles\/status\/2092397627962696072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI\u2019s Assistant Director in Charge Patrick Grandy invited \u201cHis Excellency, Ambassador Dr. Hossam Eldeen Aly, Consul General of the Arab Republic of Egypt\u201d to a ceremony last week to return the 48 relics.  The art, Grandy said, \u201coriginated from Egypt and should rightfully be returned to the people of Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egyptian treasures tracked down by the FBI\u2019s Art Team were returned home after crackdown The FBI returned 48&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2308,12017,1055,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-446319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-art","tag-egypt","tag-fbi","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}