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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 ...
[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.
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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 ]
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]
The French revolutionaries justified the large-scale and systematic looting of Italy in 1796 by viewing themselves as the political successors of Rome, in the same way that ancient Romans saw themselves as the heirs of Greek civilization; [12] by the same token, the appropriation of ancient Egyptian history as European history further ...
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 ...
The sack of Jerusalem, from the inside wall of the Arch of Titus, Rome. Looted art has been a consequence of looting during war, natural disaster and riot for centuries. Looting of art, archaeology and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act or may be a more organized case of unlawful or unethical pillage by the victor of a conflict.