The Wall Street Journal reported today that when Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities inwards Egypt, came to function at the Egyptian Museum on Saturday, Jan 29, 2011, he discovered that looters had "broken inwards as well as beheaded 2 mummies—possibly Tutankhamun's grandparents—and looted the ticket booth."
The Egyptian tourism police, armed forces as well as citizens shortly secured the museum later the discovery. It is reported that other antiquity museums, archaeological sites as well as storehouses convey likewise seen looted. These disturbing developments house the rich history of roughly of Africa's oldest remaining antiquities at the crossfire of unrest of the modern-day put down of Egypt.
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