In this photo provided by Bonhams Auctioneers is jewelry inlaid with lapis lazuli, a rare mineral, all part of Treasure of Harageh collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has purchased the jewelry, part of collection of 37, 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auction the antiquities that had drawn criticism from historians. (Photo by Bonhams Auctioneers/AP Photo)
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