Looters Rip Heads off Mummies

Would-be looters broke into Cairo’s famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by soldiers, Egypt’s antiquities chief said today. Zahi Hawass said the vandals did not manage to steal any of the museum’s antiquities, and that the…

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Looters Rip Heads off Mummies

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