Is the Egyptian Museum Under Threat?

hyperallergic.com:

Al-Jazeera is reporting a troubling development at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Qatar-based news network has been extensively covering the political protests that have engulfed Egypt, causing the country to cut off the internet to those within its borders. Al-Jazeera has been showing images of the fires which are burning around downtown Cairo and they mention that the flames could spread to the world-renowned Egyptian Museum.

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Comments

[Violinhunter]

03:30 PM on 01/30/2011

Is the museum in danger??? Of course not. That is just silly talk. In any case, it's not our museum. Let us mind our own business. Please.

[EuropeWindAndFire]

06:29 PM on 01/29/2011

Everything in the Museum is robbed anyway. It's just how you look at it, really. It would have been nice that everything was within one place assembled, but then again, why? Don't get me wrong. I love history. But inevitably everything in the books is written down some time after the facts that occurred. Only in our time sometimes WYSIWYG. But only when some outlets like WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks come into existence. The rest is obscured as always.

[AngryHarpy]

02:31 PM on 01/29/2011

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/vandals-ravage-egyptian-museum-break-mummies

[sighs]

[Edward Lucie-Smith]

01:25 PM on 01/29/2011

Let's hope the Egyptian Museum doesn't go the same way as the National Museum in Iraq. The German authorities must be very glad that they refused to lend Egypt the great bust of Nefertiti.

[eric14]

12:50 PM on 01/29/2011

Too late. looted. No separate antiquities police for museum due to corruption so when police withdrawn, museum left unguarded. Scandalous but typical of despotism. A despotism supported for decades by US tax dollars. Further evidence of the folly of US foreign policy.

[PaticaDeGato]

06:55 PM on 01/28/2011

Of course it is! That s***bag Mubarak might try and steal a few treasures on his way to the airport.