EGYPT has joined a long list of African countries - including Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon and South Africa - seeking the return of stolen artefacts from European countries.  According to Reuters, prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the repatriation of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin to Egypt. The famous painted limestone bust of Nefertiti was discovered at Tell el-Amarna, approximately 300 km (185 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 by a German archaeological mission. It was then transported to Berlin the following year. Reuters provides historical…