Egypt's tiny Mallawi museum is in ruins as Magdy Tahami looks in disbelief at what remains of it. The ground is littered with glass from the display cabinets, which once housed its precious collection, after a mob attacked and looted the building, during a nationwide crackdown on Islamist protesters. Before, hundreds of antiquities, statuettes, gold and jewels told the history of Egypt, from pharaonic times to the Muslim caliphs, from the Omayyad dynasty ...Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Egyptian Museum Vandalized by Mob Attacks
Egypt's tiny Mallawi museum is in ruins as Magdy Tahami looks in disbelief at what remains of it. The ground is littered with glass from the display cabinets, which once housed its precious collection, after a mob attacked and looted the building, during a nationwide crackdown on Islamist protesters. Before, hundreds of antiquities, statuettes, gold and jewels told the history of Egypt, from pharaonic times to the Muslim caliphs, from the Omayyad dynasty ...
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