The French magazine "John Afrique" was surprised at the lack of reference to the North African countries in the Savoy-Savoy report, prepared by the historian Benedict Savoy and the Senegalese economist, Floin Saar, on the return of France to its art of colonialism in a number of countries of the continent and its recent receipt by French President Emmanuel Macaron.

This is due to the fact that France, which colonized these countries, acquired many of its artistic works, including Carthage, Roman statues, Byzantine treasures and other stolen items from the Ottomans to French groups.

In an investigation into the magazine, Laurent de Saint-Pereier warned that many of the antiquities found by colonial archaeologists in North African countries were exhibited in Western museums, if not kept in private storage.

Since his statement in Ouagadougou, President Macaron has given the impression that he wants to focus on sub-Saharan Africa, because there is a "flaw in the distribution of the heritage of this region, while the north has rich museums as in Algeria and Tunisia," says Savoy, The Cairo Museum (1902), the Bardot Museum in Tunis (1888) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Algeria (1897) are incomparable to any museum in the 48 sub-Saharan countries.

Old claims
The investigation said that some North African countries are back to recalling some of their works from the West, such as demanding that Egypt restore the famous papyrus that allowed Champillion to decipher the ancient hieroglyphic code from the British Museum since December 2009 at the request of Archbishop Zahi Hawass.

Hawass confirmed that there was another request made in 1925 to the Museum of New Berlin to restore "Ras Nefertiti", which is no less famous than the papyrus mentioned above.

In the context, Algeria claims its property. At the end of 2017, Macron promised to restore the skulls of 37 Algerian fighters held by France since the 19th century at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The Saar-Savoy report raised the issue of the claims of Egypt and Algeria and said that "these issues must be the subject of careful task and reflection."

sobriety
The investigation found that some Arab capitals on the continent can not wait. He cited the head of the National Museums Foundation in Morocco, Mehdi Qutbi, that they decided with the Minister of Culture to "establish a special committee to inventory the Moroccan property abroad and study possible steps."

Rock Inscriptions in Morocco (Al Jazeera)

"I am defending moderation," he said, adding that "we have to return the masterpieces of the history and culture of our country, but our desire is not to restore our entire heritage." Some of the works exhibited in prestigious museums are excellent facades of Morocco Abroad".

Egypt wants to dump the Western galleries to fill its new large museum, according to the report, insisting on the scientific or technical importance of the things required that it believes contribute to the national cultural identity.

The skulls of the Algerian fighters
In Algeria, the skulls of the fighters retained in Paris began to recover, and in December 2012 the Algerian press welcomed the announcement by President François Hollande to restore the keys to the honor of Algiers, which the Dei handed over to Marshal de Beauremont after his defeat in 1830, Even today it is located in the Army Museum in Paris.

Former French President Jacques Chirac had given Algeria his first official visit there in 2003, the seal of which he had surrendered in 1830, but the seal was purchased by Burmont's heirs and was not part of the French state's inalienable property.

Algeria is demanding a huge bronze cannon made by the Ottoman Empire. The French took a war trophy and presented it in Brest with a rooster mark. It also demanded the restoration of the archive of 132 years of colonialism. In 2017, Macron promised to hand over a copy of it.

Tunisian coffins
In Tunisia, the authorities are not demanding the return of antiquities from outside, according to the director of research at the National Heritage Institute Laila Al-Ajmi Sibai, who says she is proud that the Tunisian antiquities are exhibited in the world's most beautiful museums.

However, Laila feels with regret "the existence of large works that have been preserved for years in the stores of the Louvre," pointing out that they mean in particular a collection of four coffins of white marble, with priests' coffins, which were transferred to Paris for the World Exposition of 1900 and no longer Never, it was not offered.

The archaeologist, in vain, had asked the Louvre Museum 20 years ago to restore the head of a Roman emperor taken from the Church of Carthage and still in a warehouse that the world does not see.

Italy returned to the late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi "Horya Quryna" after a long show at the Hammamet Museum in Rome, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came to Benghazi with an apology for the colonization of his country to Libya, but all traces looted after the revolution, as in Egypt after Which also strengthened the position of Italian voices that strongly opposed the departure of the goddess on 30 August 2008.