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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Emergency Red List of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk


http://icom.museum/resources/red-lists-database/red-list/egypt

Careful examination of this list will show it does not include Roman period mummy cartonnage made from papyrus, as Douglas Boin falsely claimed in the NYT:
"Items to look out for? Mummies, mummy casings, and papyrus fragments."
Although mummies were looted at al-Hibeh, from previous reports.