Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The bronze trumpet was among the items stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo during the Egyptian looting and riots of 2011. It mysteriously returned to the museum some weeks later. [ 4 ] According to Al-Ahram , after its return Hala Hassan, curator of the Tutankhamun collection at the Egyptian Museum, claimed that it had "magical powers" and ...
The writings of European archaeologists and tourists illustrate the impression that modern Egyptians were uncivilized, savage, and the antithesis of the splendor of ancient Egypt. [49] Museums furnished by colonial looting have largely shaped the way a nation imagines its dominion, the nature of the human beings under its power, the geography ...
Mallawi Museum is a museum of Egyptian antiquities in Mallawi, Minya Governorate, Upper Egypt. The museum was established in 1963 to house finds from local excavations and held an important collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts until it was looted in August 2013. [1] [2] Over 1000 pieces were stolen or destroyed in the looting but around ...
Pages in category "Looting in Egypt" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alexandrian Crusade; C.
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (Arabic: المتحف المصري, romanized: al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic: el-Matḥaf el-Maṣri [elˈmætħæf elˈmɑsˤɾi]) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. [1]
Egyptian and European flags fly over the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing within its 120-year-old ...
Beijing . Adult Admission: Free With 20 permanent exhibition halls and 100 years of Chinese cinema history behind its walls, the China National Film Museum is the “world’s largest professional ...
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum (490,000 square metres (5,300,000 sq ft) located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt.. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021 by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an ...