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Museum directors and ministers from 16 countries are meeting in Cairo this week to try and get back treasures. They will discuss to recover important parts of their that are kept in museums in other countries. Officials include representatives from India, Greece, Italy, Nigeria and China. Most of their antiquities were taken ago by invading armies and colonizers. Those the two-day conference will draw up a list of they want returned. Egypt wants the of thousands of ancient Egyptian artefacts being kept in Western museums. The event has been organised by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, which is calling for "the and restitution of cultural heritage”.

Many world famous and items of human history will be discussed. Egypt will call for the return from Britain of the 2,000-year-old Rosetta Stone. Egypt's archaeology representative Dr. Zahi Hawass also has a 3,400-year-old of Queen Nefertiti high on his list. Hawass has had a lot of in recovering antiquities. In the past , he has successfully got back over 30,000 items from . Greece is fighting another high- antiquity battle. It wants the return of the Elgin Marbles, also as the Parthenon Marbles, which the British from Athens at the beginning of the nineteenth . The conference will also ask UNESCO to change international laws that stolen antiquities to be sold and exported.