Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Says Some Objects Looted from Museum Found

CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country’s top Egyptologist said Monday. Items including a statue of King Tutankhamun and objects from the era of the Pharaoh Akhenaten went missing when looters broke into the museum during mass protests that engulfed the streets around the museum in central Cairo. But Zahi Hawass, recently named minister of state for antiquities affairs, [...]

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Says Some Objects Looted from Museum Found

CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country’s top Egyptologist said Monday. Items including a statue of King Tutankhamun and objects from the era of the Pharaoh Akhenaten went missing when looters broke into the museum during mass protests that engulfed the streets around the museum in central Cairo. Artefacts still missing include a statue of Akhenaten’s wife Nefertiti making [...]