Egypt’s administrative prosecution body has referred 12 former antiquities ministry employees to trial for allegedly allowing members of a German archaeological expedition to steal samples from the Giza Pyramids in 2013. According to a statement from the prosecution body, the 12 men, who worked in the pyramids department, will be tried in a disciplinary court. Investigators allege that the 12 men committed various crimes in 2013, such as allowing a group of Germans to illegally take a piece of a cartouche from a small compartment above King Kufu’s burial chamber.
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