A gilded statue of Tutankhamun that was stolen from the Egyptian Museum in January has been returned, along with three other objects, Egypt’s minister of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, announced on Tuesday in a news release on his Web site. The figure is from a statue of the king standing in a boat throwing a harpoon. The looters had broken the figure of the king off the boat, which they left in the museum.
The news release, which did not explain how the objects were recovered, said that the figure had been slightly damaged, with a part of its crown and pieces of the legs missing, and that the whole statue would be restored. It was among several dozen objects looted from the museum on Jan. 28, in the midst of the protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo.