**France’s Louvre Museum says it is open to the idea of returning ancient Egyptian fresco fragments at the centre of a row with Egyptian officials.**Earlier, Egypt’s head of antiquities Zahi Hawass told the AFP news agency that the Louvre had bought the fragments knowing they were stolen.
Egypt had severed co-operation with the Louvre, pending their return, he said.
The Pharaonic steles are reported to be from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor.