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Posted on 01/29/2011 1:34:02 PM PST by lbryce
Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late Friday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt's top archaeologist told state television.
The museum in central Cairo, which has the world's biggest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, is adjacent to the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party that protesters had earlier set ablaze. Flames were seen still pouring out of the party headquarters early Saturday.
"I felt deeply sorry today when I came this morning to the Egyptian Museum and found that some had tried to raid the museum by force last night," Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Saturday.
"Egyptian citizens tried to prevent them and were joined by the tourism police, but some (looters) managed to enter from above and they destroyed two of the mummies," he said.
He added looters had also ransacked the ticket office.
The two-storey museum, built in 1902, houses tens of thousands of objects in its galleries and storerooms, including most of the King Tutankhamen collection.
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Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Supreme?? lol.
They must have forgotten King Tut put a curse on anyone disturbing him and his stuff.
What a loss. What is it with Muslums and destruction.
Afghanistan Muslums destroyed statues of Budda that were over 1,000 yrs old. Caves, dwellings - the loss to the people of Afghanistan is unknowable. If Afghanistan could collectively pull their head from their backsides - the tourism industry alone would stagger their current Gross National Product.
Now Egypt - it’s like a group of children without adult supervision.
Oh No!
Not the MUMMIES!
What Country is going to be the first to bring back the Guillotine?
That’s a place where tanks should be placed and where shoot to kill orders should be given. Degenerate scum. In Iraq they did the same and over the many years and months you’s read a story of people trying to smuggle them to private investors.
Do present day Egyptians even build anything? They’d better hang on to their history - else why would tourists bother coming?
Like that slimey pos Emanuel says, “never let a XXXX go to waste”.
Great time to loot antiquities or something in Egypt.
Maybe knock off a bank or something.
God, please destroy this evil Muslim filth.
A preview of what to expect if and when the Ikhwan takes over. Afghanistan was and is a nearly empty cultural backwater, but Egypt is not.
These creatures will definitely dynamite the Sphinx and the Luxor statues, and probably the pyramids as well.
I dunno, but it calls to mind all those photographs of "minorities" looting stores of whatever they could find, including life's necessities like HD TV sets, appliances and cases of alcohol, during Hurricane Katrina. Who knows what goes through the minds of idiots?
They are uncivilized savages. The world would be far better off without them.
For example, when Hoving was meeting with officials of the Egyptian Museum in the late 1970s to select pieces for the Tutankhamun show, there was no electricity in the museum. None. Not a volt. Not an outlet. Not a wire. And yet the museum held most of the King Tutankhamun treasures discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carvarvon.
Several million dollars to renovate the museum and install electricity had been given by the Met some twenty or thirty years earlier as part of a complicated purchase arrangement, but the museum's directors and the Supreme Council of Antiquities had not yet decided on a plan of renovation. After all, they'd only had twenty or thirty years. Why rush the decision?
Incidentally, to photograph the pieces for the Met's Tut catalog, the Met 'borrowed' a few hundred feet of electrical cable from the Giza pyramid lighting show, tapped directly into the electrical lines in the street outside the Egyptian Museum, ran the line through a broken window on the second floor of the museum, and set up a temporary photographic studio. The Met also ran a temporary line to the museum director's office so that he had a desk lamp during the period the Met was shooting photos for the Tut exhibit catalog.
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Freaking barbarians!! That is what happened to the Library of Alexandria...........not to mention so many other critical historical documents/landmarks that have been destroyed through the ages. War is hell but to target critical items that have documented human history...well it shows what type of animals are usually involved in these types of wars/conflicts.
Ummm. I meant Lord Carnarvon. The Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, George Herbert.
Yes, the Buddhas of Bamayyan were centuries old. I was appalled that the Taliban destroyed them. I am sadder thinking that those in power in our country have more respect for the destroyers than for we Americans. I am sick at the thought of the destruction they will do if allowed.
I know I read somewhere that Tut proclaimed, just before he died, “don’t touch my junk!”
Well, here's hoping they got all of the x-rays, photos, etc of the mummies before they were destroyed. Shame.
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