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King Tut Statues Among Treasures Missing From Egyptian Museum

CAIRO - A full inventory of the Egyptian Museum has found that looters escaped with 18 items during the anti-government unrest, including two gilded wooden statues of famed boy king, Tutankhamun, the antiquities chief said Sunday. The 18-day uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak engulfed the areas around the...

Egypt's Damaged Artifacts to Be Restored in Days

CAIRO - The artifacts from the Egyptian Museum damaged by looters will be restored over the next five days, the country's antiquities head said Monday. Zahi Hawass also said that steps were being taken to reopen Egypt's famed archaeological sites, which have been closed since unrest seized the country two weeks...

Human Shield of Civilians Protects Egypt's Museums

Egypt's ancient treasures appear to be safe today, after citizens, and later the military, banded together to stop looters amid an uprising that left some of the world's most prized artifacts perilously vulnerable to common thieves. Egyptians, desperate to protect their country's heritage from the kind of mass looting...

Looters Rip Heads Off 2 Mummies at Egyptian Museum

CAIRO -- Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday. Zahi Hawass said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum's antiquities, and...

Egypt's National Museum: King Tut's Treasures Potentially Threatened by Fire? [VIDEO]

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities -- also known as the Egyptian Museum and the National Museum -- was reported to be under threat from nearby blazes burning in the center of Cairo as a result of the ongoing political demonstrations against the government of Hosni Mubarak, Al-Jazeera reported. With an estimated 120,000...

King Tutankhamun News From the Web

05/17/12 King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA It was dawn when Jerry Hume and the rest of the USS Milwaukee crew pulled into port off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, that day in 1976.
05/09/12 Google's gilded logo honours archaeologist Howard... Source: CHBC Television Search giant Google celebrates the birthday of one of the primary discoverers of King Tutankhamun's tomb with a gilded logo on its homepage.

Background on King Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon) Egyptian ', ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca.

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