More than 1,000 artifacts spanning 3500 years of history looted or destroyed during Egypt’s violence By Giacomo Crescenzi, contributor, EgyptianStreets.com The Mallawi Museum, in the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, was allegedly looted and ransacked in the night between Thursday 15 and Friday 16 of August 2013. You can really get an idea of the scale of damages since pictures and videos have started to circulate in numbers on the web. What you can see are mutilated ancient statues and broken glass cases once displaying rare artifacts, now emptied of their treasures. An itemized list of the stolen objects has not been officially released yet but over 1000 artifacts are reported to have gone missing from the Mallawi Museum. Among certain people in Egypt there is an overall feeling of loss and literal fury for a blatant attack to the cultural heritage of the country. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Antiquities; Mohamed Ibrahim, pro-Morsi supporters were responsible for this criminal act as protesters first announced a sit-in in the museum’s garden and then allegedly broke in. Surveillance cameras were damaged and so far there is no legal…
