Casting Stone should be returned to Egypt - Symbol of Imperial looting by the British

Report here over a controversy between Egypt and the National Museum of Scotland over a casting stone purportedly said to come from the Great Pyramid of Giza. However a renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass disputes this

Scotland wants to keep the artefact although the circumstances of its legal removal from the original site are murky.

The National Museum of Scotland is falling back on the ‘if we didn’t take it it might have been lost’ argument.

At a time so many issues relating to antiquities taken from the Celtic countries such as the Chronicles of Man and the Lewis Chessmen are in dispute the argument between Scotland and Egypt is undignified.

The casting stone should be returned to Egypt its a symbol of an Imperial period when the British looted the worlds treasures:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/…/Egypt-to-send-official-inquir…

https://www.thenational.scot/…/17346720.national-museum-of…/

Bernard Moffatt

Assistant General Secretary
Celtic League