Give Me The Loot! Give Me The Loot! Bad Boys Runnin’ In The Tombs Of Cairo (PHOTOS)

A collective gasp was heard around the world after Al Jazeera English reported looting and vandalism at the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising last week. Egyptologists and laymen were dismayed and ordinary  lovers of Egypt and world history wept.

The looters were after gold and the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities holds plenty of it in the forms of masks, jewelry and sarcophagi. In fact, the Museum holds the largest repository of gold from Antiquity. 

 The 10 persons arrested grabbed items from the Museum’s gift shop and damaged two mummies and other objects thousands of years old, including 4000 year old wooden sculptures. These sculptures were placed in the graves of aristocrats from the Middle Kingdom period in order to serve the dead posthumously. Scientifically, they are very valuable as these are three-dimensional models made by the Egyptians themselves. They   portray various daily-life scenes from the work of butchers, bakers, carpenters, soldiers and more.

 Though there are over 120,000 items on display at the sprawling Museum, Global Grind has compiled a list of 15 the Museum’s most importFunerary Mask of King Tut

Turquoise hedgehogs.The fat of hedgehogs were considered as remedies for baldness.

Ivory figure of Kufu.Kufu built the largest pyramid in Giza

Ramsesses 2 As Child

Eye Necklace. Used as amulet

Bust of Nefertiti

An important papyrus depicting Egyptian royal court life.

Merenptah Israel StelaAn important commemoration of the Egyptian’s victory over the Libyans.

King Tut’s Bed

Palette of NarmerThis object contains hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. It is thought by some to depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the king Narmer.

Satirical papyrus with animals as humans playing games.

Sculpture of Kha