King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says

CNN ^ | February 13, 2011 -- Updated 1326 GMT (2126 HKT) | CNN Wire Staff

[Pan_Yan]

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- At least 17 artifacts from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo are missing following a break-in, the country's minister of antiquities said Sunday.

The missing objects include a gilded wood statue of King Tutankhamun being carried by a goddess; parts of a a gilded wood statue of Tutankhamun harpooning; a limestone statue of Akhenaten; a statue of Nefertiti making offerings; a sandstone head of an Amarna princess; a stone statuette of a scribe from Amarna; 11 wooden shabti statuettes of Yuya; and a heart scarab of Yuya.

The discovery that the ancient treasures are missing came after museum staff took an inventory, Zaki Hawass said in a statement.

The police and army plan to question people who are already in custody, Hawass said.

[Pan_Yan]

Ping.

[Sacajaweau]

1000-1 it’s an inside job...just like Iraq...

[supremedoctrine]

Uh-oh.
These are gonna be hard to get rid of on Ebay.

[LibsRJerks]

A populace that cares nothing for its national treasures hardly sounds like a patriotic or democratic society to me. Sounds like a bunch of hoodlums.

[sunmars]

Mubarak most likely had them on his plane to Dubai with him.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Good thing the British Museum has some of the better stuff, eh??

[Zakeet]

How about we send them our reasonably close facsimile thereof?

[Catsrus]

OMG this is hilarious!

[homegroan]

ditto that

[bert]

......a statue of Nefertiti making offerings......

This is one of the most sensuous sculptures ever created

[basil]

It’s been a long time since I laughed myself silly before breakfast, but King Putz had me in hysterics!

[left that other site]

LMAO!

Seriously though, the MB, Taliban, and Al Q'aida consider these ancient treasures to be evil and think nothing of blowing them up.

[musicman]

"King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says"

[Allegra]

1000-1 it’s an inside job...just like Iraq...

My first thought as well.

The Baghdad Museum got the artifacts back...but it took a while.

[Graybeard58]

A populace that cares nothing for its national treasures hardly sounds like a patriotic or democratic society to me. Sounds like a bunch of hoodlums.

If a Katrina like disaster hit D.C., do you think there would be anything left in the Smithsonian?

[silverleaf]

Bush’s fault

sarc

[Yo-Yo]

"Got a Condo made of stone-a.."

[Tax-chick]

The police and army plan to question people who are already in custody, Hawass said.

Round up the usual suspects!

The items will be safer in private collections than in the Cairo Museum.

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