Officials stand in the Egyptian Museum after it was looted (picture).
Flanked by special forces, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass speaks at Cairo's Egyptian Museum Monday.
Photograph by Tara Todras-Whitehill, AP

Egypt Treasures Looted, but Public Strikes Back

To save sites, citizens and researchers form human chains and get inventive.

February 2, 2011

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