Very much like happened in the museums of Britain, Germany, the Vatican and other states when art and artifacts were removed, stored/hidden before aerial bombings began in WW2.
(....somehow I doubt the Egytian museum personnel had the time or the prescience to carry out removal procedures prior to the rioting. One can only pray so).
Leni
Good points, Leni. I know in the middle of all the chaos a lot of folks don’t think the artifacts of Egypt shouldn’t matter- but they do.
I read a tweet yesterday somewhere from a curator saying the losses were much greater than had been reported.