Italy is celebrating the return of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of euro that were looted and sold to American museums and private collectors.

Manhattan prosecutors began investigating Mr Steinhardt’s collection of ancient artefacts in 2017 and raided his office and his Manhattan home in 2018, seizing several artworks that investigators said had been looted

Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister said.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said.