Egypt launches campaign for return of stolen treasures from the West.

(From Agence France Presse)

With calls for Britain to agree to a three-month loan of the celebrated Rosetta stone and demands for Germany to relinquish a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt has launched a massive campaign for the return of its antiquities from Western museums.

Chief architect of the campaign is Zahi Hawass, general secretary of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, who with his trademark panama hat has long graced foreign television cameras with his inflammatory calls for the return of ancient treasures.

And to mark the 100th anniversary of Cairo's Egyptian Museum in December, the truculent archaeologist told egyptologists …