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Zahi Hawass, general secretary of the Superior Council of Antiquities of the Egyptian government, poses in front of Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, in this March 3, 2007, file picture. Hawass told The Associated Press in an interview that if persuasion doesn’t work, he will fight for a bust of Nefertiti now in a Berlin museum that Germany says is too fragile to travel. Hawass rattled the world’s museums last week with requests to hand over masterpieces of ancient Egypt, including the Rosetta Stone, some for loans, others permanently. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)