Sunday, June 06, 2004

Items Missing from the Cairo Museum

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=qw1086530580398B221&set_id=1
A number of items in the Cairo Museum cannot be accounted for, and an audit is going to be carried out to discover the full extent of the loss. It is alledged that 38 gold items from the Tutankhamun collection are missing, and it has been confirmed that another 38 pieces, dating to the Roman occupation of Egypt, are also missing.

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