No mummies damaged during Cairo museum's break-in



Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Antiquities

 Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's antiquities committee since 2002 and made minister just last week, clarified an earlier statement yesterday for BBC. The two mummies originally thought to be damaged during the break-in and looting in Cairo's Egyptian Museum were not mummies at all, but two skulls swiped from the CT machine.

Egypt's cultural treasures are secured, Dr. Hawass said. "The Valley of the Kings is safe, the pyramids are safe, 24 museums are safe, the synagogues and the monasteries and the Muslim monuments are completely safe."

On his website, Dr. Hawass wrote that 70 antiquities were broken included a statue of boy pharaoh King Tutankhamun atop a panther and other artifacts from later periods, all of which can be restored.