Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced last week that it had recieved 36 artifacts looted from the country and later recovered by US authorities. The pieces, the agency said, are set to be deposited with Egyptian Museum, though it did not specify if this was the older museum in Cairo, or the glitzy new Grand Egyptian Museum in nearby Giza, which finally had its grand opening earlier this month after two decades in construction and $1 billion in development costs.The collection of recovered artifacts is actually comprised of three caches: a group of 11 artifacts handed over in May by New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose Antiquities Trafficking Unit has become the premier office investigating such crimes; 25 rare Coptic and Syrian manuscripts handed over by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and a third grouping handed over by Bragg’s office more recently that includes a colored plasterboard dating to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt (or about 1500 BCE).Nevine El-Aref, the ministry’s media adviser, told CBS News last week that the Egyptian government has made a renewed effort to recover all illegally smuggled artifacts, monitoring the web for evidence of stolen works, and then collaborating with local authorities to recover them. “Any artifact that belongs to Egypt’s heritage is important. Even if it’s a small stone, it is important to bring it back to Egypt, where it belongs,” El-Aref told the broadcaster. “It is very important for Egypt to preserve its archaeological heritage and its history and pass it on to the next generations.”Have a look at the works recently recovered below.