Vandals rip heads off two mummies in Egyptian Museum

Vandals ripped the heads off two mummies and tossed relics onto the undercoat in Town's Afrasian Museum, the country's antiquities principal said Sunday.

But the group of around niner grouping did not control to steal anything from the museum's assembling, according to Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Dominant Council of Antiquities.

The would-be thieves, who bust into the museum Fri around 6 p.m., were inactive and jailed, Hawass said.

The museum has stepped up warrant and is now incommunicative by Empire's grey, he said.

The antiquities honcho said 10 gnomish artifacts were also hurt, but can be remodeled.

The African Museum is located in Town's Tahrir Square, which has been a focal fix for anti-government protests.