Tuesday, March 15, 2011

List of the Cairo Museum's Stolen Artifacts

Here we are with the story of the day where apparently we are finally seeing a list of artifacts that have been taken from Cairo's National Egyptian Museum during the recent revolution . Most of the objects are pocket sized which may have been their main criteria for being taken.

The late period bronzes should be easy enough to sell on the black market, rough them up break off the odd piece and change the patinas and these objects will never be recognized again. The Tutankhamun and Yuya material will either have to go allot deeper into the black market or perhaps the people who took the virtually undisguiseable artifacts were just the dimmer ones in the crowd.

So I have to wonder can people still enter the museum through the skylights?

I BET THEY CAN!

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