By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Locks of 3,200 year old hair from the pharaoh Ramses II were unveiled at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesday, returned to Egypt after being stolen 30 years ago in France and put up for sale on the Internet.
The small tufts of brown hair were displayed alongside pieces of linen bandages and 11 pieces of resin used in the mummification of Ramses and his son Merneptah in a glass display case.
Photographers mobbed the case as Egypt's culture minister and antiquities chief showed off the returned items.
The hair will eventually be put on display next to Ramses' mummy at the museum.
The theft of the items was discovered when the pieces of hair were put up for sale on a Web site last November by a French postman, Jean-Michel Diebolt, who gave the hair a price tag of $2,600.
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