2011年2月14日星期一

Egyptian Museum Lost The Importance Objects

On January 28, because of the  turmoil and the Tahrir Square's chaos, there has some thieves climbed a fire escape to the museum's roof. Lowered themselves on ropes from a glass-paneled ceiling to the museum's top floor. There were about 70 objects damaged, and the more inportant thing is it has no one know what has happend until an announcement on Sunday night that anything had gone missing.

The most important object on the missing is the limestone statue of the Pharaoh Akhenaten standing and holding an offering table.

Akhenaten, a Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who was Tut's father and the husband of Queen Nefertiti, died around 1334 B.C. He stands out in history because during his reign he switched Egyptian religious ceremony from a vibrant polytheism to the worshiping of a single god of gods known as the Aten, a solar deity.

There also missing a statue of Nefertiti, a heart scarab and wooden funerary statuettes.  The Egyptian Museum is still closed and is guarded by an army unit. Plans are being developed to better protect the museum's glass ceiling section.

Now  a full inventory of the Egyptian Museum has been done to assess the damage. Among the casualties were two gilded wooden statues of King Tut.

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