Suspicious fruit ship had 1,700 smuggled Egyptian artifacts on board, officials say

BY ASPEN PFLUGHOEFT

As ships came in and out of a port in eastern Egypt, something suspicious attracted the attention of local authorities. A large cargo vessel was docked at the port of Nuweiba on the Red Sea, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in an Oct. 23 news release. The ship should have been carrying fruits — but it had something else onboard.

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