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Rated by Participant: 93C685F24CD64146736C1256C8666363AB70F57E988375931810E92B45F2B1C4
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NNN - the British occupied Egypt at the time, and the ring was purchased from an antiquities dealer, which at the time was likely to either be a member of the British Empire or an Egyptian in desperate need of money due to Britain's colonization & wealth extraction. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017.05.15/ https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/world/loot-along-antiquities-trail-illicit-journey-egypt-only-few-questions-asked.html
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