A very tall statue of the mother of Ramses looks over another room in the Egyptian museum.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

They had been brought from Egypt. The first room in the Egyptian museum welcomes visitors to the world of the pharaohs who ruled ancient Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

At that time, American heart expert Gregory Thomas was visiting the Museum of the Antiquities with Egyptian heart expert Adel Allam.

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The Egyptian Museum, which opened in downtown Cairo in 1902, has long had too little exhibition space.

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In a telephone conversation, the minister informed Irina Bokova that the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is safe and that the army and firefighters have established a cordon around the building.

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To flatter him, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.

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