Egyptian Antiquities Safe After Museum’s Looting, Official Says
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The Egyptian National Museum is safe, and cultural artifacts damaged by vandals who broke into the building during anti-government protests can be restored, the head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said.
Tourism police aided by protesters earlier apprehended nine men in connection with looting at the museum, Zahi Hawass, the council’s secretary general, said yesterday. Dozens of demonstrators had stood guard around the building, one of Cairo’s biggest tourist attractions, to protect it until troops arrived, he said.