{"id":19219,"date":"2016-05-27T00:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T07:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=19219"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T00:21:37","slug":"sarcophagi-returned-to-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2016\/05\/27\/sarcophagi-returned-to-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarcophagi returned to Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>(photo from Israel Antiquities Authority)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of two Egyptian sarcophagi covers \u2013 one dating to between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE (Iron Age) and the other to between the 16th and 14th centuries BCE (the late Bronze Age) \u2013 that were seized by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) inspectors four years ago while checking shops in the market of Jerusalem\u2019s Old City. In a short ceremony on May 22, they were returned to Egypt. Egyptian ambassador Hazem Khairat expressed Egypt\u2019s appreciation for all the efforts made by the Israeli authorities to return these smuggled antiquities to their country of origin.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo from Israel Antiquities Authority) One of two Egyptian sarcophagi covers \u2013 one dating to between the 10th and 8th centuries BCE (Iron Age) and the other to between the 16th and 14th centuries BCE (the late Bronze Age) \u2013 that were seized by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) inspectors four years ago while checking shops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[3504,4330,223,5884,5883],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-egypt","tag-israel","tag-israel-antiquities-authority","tag-khairat","tag-sarcophagi"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}