{"id":94691936,"date":"2011-02-17T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/three-missing-items-recovered-at-egyptian-museum\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T09:37:00","slug":"three-missing-items-recovered-at-egyptian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/three-missing-items-recovered-at-egyptian-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Missing Items Recovered at Egyptian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/Egyptian_Museum_19.JPG\" alt=\"People gather outside the famed Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Image: \nWikimedia)\" title=\"People gather outside the famed Egyptian Museum in Cairo \n(Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Authorities hope to re-open the museum on Saturday <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThree of the eighteen items missing from the famed Egyptian Museum have been found, according to Egypt&rsquo;s Antiquities Minister.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pieces went missing after rioters looted the museum during an 18-day revolt against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Zahi Hawass said that the three items were found scattered inside the museum; he speculated that looters dropped the items while attempting to escape from authorities.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Hawass, several arrests have been made in the robberies and the remaining pieces will be difficult to sell as they are officially registered with the Egyptian government.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHawass said that he was optimistic that the museum could re-open as early as this weekend as life across Egypt slowly begins a return to normalcy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe museum is thought to be the only major tourist attraction damaged in anti-Mubarak protests.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CM6mJ6l6\" target=\"_blank\">AP <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Authorities hope to re-open the museum on Saturday &nbsp; Three of the eighteen items missing from the famed Egyptian Museum have been found, according to Egypt&rsquo;s Antiquities Minister. &nbsp; The pieces went missing after rioters looted the museum during an 18-day revolt against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. &nbsp; Dr. Zahi Hawass said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}