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King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says
CNN ^
| February 13, 2011 -- Updated 1326 GMT (2126 HKT)
| CNN Wire Staff
Posted on 02/13/2011 5:50:56 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; cairomuseum; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; obamasfault; tut; zahihawass
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posted on
02/13/2011 5:51:00 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/13/2011 5:51:28 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
1000-1 it’s an inside job...just like Iraq...
To: Pan_Yan
Uh-oh.
These are gonna be hard to get rid of on Ebay.
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posted on
02/13/2011 5:54:46 AM PST
by
supremedoctrine
(Come closer. Let me get a better look at you.)
To: Pan_Yan
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.
To: Pan_Yan
Mubarak most likely had them on his plane to Dubai with him.
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posted on
02/13/2011 5:56:54 AM PST
by
sunmars
To: Pan_Yan
Good thing the British Museum has some of the better stuff, eh??
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:00:00 AM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
To: Pan_Yan

How about we send them our reasonably close facsimile thereof?
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:00:35 AM PST
by
Zakeet
(Always trust in the five G's: God, Gold, Guns, Grub, and the Government screwing up)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:01:45 AM PST
by
Catsrus
(Have)
To: LibsRJerks
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:02:03 AM PST
by
homegroan
(yes, I'm still here...)
To: Pan_Yan
......a statue of Nefertiti making offerings......
This is one of the most sensuous sculptures ever created
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:03:00 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
To: Zakeet
It’s been a long time since I laughed myself silly before breakfast, but King Putz had me in hysterics!
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:04:49 AM PST
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Zakeet
LMAO!
Seriously though, the MB, Taliban, and Al Q'aida consider these ancient treasures to be evil and think nothing of blowing them up.
To: Pan_Yan; All
"King Tut statue among missing Egypt treasures, minister says"
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:07:06 AM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Sacajaweau
1000-1 its an inside job...just like Iraq...My first thought as well.
The Baghdad Museum got the artifacts back...but it took a while.
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:08:58 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: 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. If a Katrina like disaster hit D.C., do you think there would be anything left in the Smithsonian?
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:14:22 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:14:57 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: Pan_Yan
"Got a Condo made of stone-a.."
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:21:07 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Pan_Yan
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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posted on
02/13/2011 6:22:13 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All that, plus a real-meat cheezburger and wine.)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
02/13/2011 6:24:49 AM PST
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts...)
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