Egypt’s antiquities ministry has released the final result of the post-revolution inventories, which reveal that 81 archaeological objects are missing from their collections. This includes 27 objects from theTel El-Faraein storehouse and 54 from the national museum in Cairo.Considering Hawass was just sentenced to jail time in an unrelated case, I don't know that he is going to get right on that anytime soon. But it's not his fault the artifacts are missing.
Egypt’s former antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, reached out to the international community and asked for help in recovering these objects, which are believed to have been stolen in the course of the riots and afterward. UNESCO is responding by sending a delegation to assess the state to Egypt’s cultural heritage collection.
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