Rare archaeological finds arrive in Prague museum from Egypt

Rare, up to 5,000-year-old archaeological finds from Egypt reached, escorted by the police, arrived in Prague's National Museum (NM) today to go on display within the Sun Kings exhibition that is to present Czech Egyptologists' discoveries in Abusir, NM head Michal Lukes said today. The 90 exhibits come mainly from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which loans its artifacts only exceptionally. The exhibition, with the insured value of one billion crowns, will show objects loaned by about a dozen of foreign institutions, Lukes told journalists.