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[citation needed] Regarding the Egyptian Museum looting, he said: "The museum was dark and the nine robbers did not recognise the value of what was in the vitrines. They opened thirteen cases, threw the seventy objects on the ground and broke them, including one Tutankhamun case, from which they broke the statue of the king on a panther.
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 ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
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]
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
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 ...
Archaeological looting is the illicit removal of artifacts from an archaeological site. Such looting is the major source of artifacts for the antiquities market . [ 1 ] Looting typically involves either the illegal exportation of artifacts from their country of origin or the domestic distribution of looted goods. [ 2 ]
CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian security officials on Sunday in a fresh push for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, two Hamas sources said, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...