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The National Authority for Tourism and National Heritage has recently recovered more than 1,000 national antiquities from the United States of America, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Nayef Al-Qunour, Director General of Registration and Protection of Antiquities at the General Authority of Tourism and National Heritage, said that the total number of these coins had reached (1127) national antiquities, which had were voluntarily recovered from relatives of American citizens who had worked in the Kingdom during the 1960s.
He added that the pieces are divided into two groups, the first of the restored monuments, which constituted (247) national antiques of the American citizen Mark Gold Smith, and the second number (880) national antiquities recovered from the American citizen Carol Musman, in because of different ages and periods.
In the same context, said Abdulaziz Al-Dayel, head of the Department of Antiquities restored by the Commission, the artifacts received are the subject of a sort, a photograph and a documentation by Commission specialists, followed by the preparation of a report, then recorded in the Commission's National Register of Antiquities.
He specified that the distinctive pieces will appear in the National Museum's Restored Monuments Pavilion, indicating that the number of pieces recovered from within and outside the Kingdom has reached up to now more than 53,000 national antiquities.
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