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A wooden statue of Tutankhamun, right, the gilded bronze and wooden trumpet of Tutankhamun and a part of Tutankhamun's fan, left, three of four objects that were missing and returned, are displayed during a press conference in the office of Egypt's Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Hawass said a special police force will be set up to protect archaeological sites and museums around the country, following a wave of vandalism and looting.AP Photo/Khalil Hamra.
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CAIRO (AP).- Egypt's minister of antiquities says a special police force will be set up to protect archaeological sites and museums around the country, following a wave of vandalism and looting.
Zahi Hawass told reporters Tuesday that authorities have been unable to protect antiquities because police personnel guarding the ancient sites were not armed.
He also announced the retrieval of four artifacts of the 37 looted from the Egyptian Museum during the weeks of protest that eventually ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
The artifacts belonged to the world famous King Tutankhamun collection.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Today's News
April 13, 2011
The World Marks 50th Anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Flight into Space
Presentation of Historical Pieces and New Works at Punta della Dogana in Venice
Sculptor Richard Serra Shows Unsung Drawings at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rediscovered Rothko to Highlight Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Appoints Naomi Beckwith as New Curator
Russian Art Auction Achieves $16.1 Million At Sotheby's New York, Highest Result Since 2008
Bonhams to Sell J.M.W. Turner Masterpiece Depicting Whitstable Oyster Beds
National Portrait Gallery Announces BP Portrait Award 2011 Shortlist...and a Record Number of Entries
Art Fund to Increase Funding for Museums and Galleries to Buy and Show Art by 50%
Recently Rediscovered Books Plundered by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Community
Early Picasso to Highlight Christie's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4
NASA Announces Space Shuttles Going to Florida, California, Suburban Washington
Mikhail Baryshnikov-Owned Russian Painting Sells for $746,500 at Sotheby's in New York
Jordan Creates World's Largest Online Antiquities Database at Cost of $1 Million
Russian Businessman Evgeny Yurchenko Buys Vostok 3KA-2 Space Capsule at Sotheby's
Countdown to Auctions America by RM's Debut in Carlisle
Chinese Government Says It is "Unhappy" with Foreign Support for Artist Ai Weiwei
Unknown Drafts by Robespierre Included in Books & Manuscripts Sale at Sotheby's Paris
Gagosian Gallery in London Present Photographs from Vera Lutter's Egypt Series
Kentucky's Speed Art Museum Reveals Expansion Design Plans Designed by wHY Architecture
Victoria & Albert Museum Presents Figures and Fictions: South African Photography
Billed as the Warhol of his Generation, Dave White Presents 'Americana' at The Coningsby Gallery
Iratxe Jai and Klaas van Gorkum at MUSAC's Laboratorio 987
Beck's Art Crawl Celebrating 25 Years of Beck's Art Labels
Bonhams Sale of Motor Cars at Hendon Realises Over £2.25 Million
After 46 Years, Jewelry Formerly Owned by by Pope Paul VI Up for Auction in North Carolina
Intimate Images of Picasso by His Friend, Andre Villers, to Sell at Bonhams
Neues Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield Wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2011
Egypt to Form Special Force to Protect Antiquities
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