National Geographics is reporting museums throughout Egypt are being looted by thieves taking advantage of the present anarchism in the country:
Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, reports that several of the country’s museums have been attacked by looters taking advantage of the political turmoil in the country.
In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, looters stole jewelry from the museum shop and smashed a statue of Tutankhamun and other artifacts. In a Sinai store containing antiquities from the Port Said Museum, “a large group, armed with guns and a truck, entered the store, opened the boxes in the magazine and took the precious objects. Other groups attempted to enter the Coptic Museum, Royal Jewellery Museum, National Museum of Alexandria, and El Manial Museum,” Hawass, who is also a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, posted on his website.
“My heart is broken and my blood is boiling. I feel that everything I have done in the last nine years has been destroyed in one day,” Hawass wrote.
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