New York (AFP) – New York prosecutors have seized five Egyptian antiques from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an international trafficking investigation involving the former head of Paris’s Louvre Museum. The artifacts — which include a group of painted linen fragments, dated between 250 and 450 BC, depicting a scene from the Book of Exodus — are worth more than $3 million, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. A New York state judge ordered their confiscation on May 19, a court document shows. “The pieces were seized pursuant to the warrant,” a spokesperson for th…