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Ancient art stolen from Egyptian Museum recovered by police Two
of the statues were among several items that went missing when
rioters broke into the Egyptian Museum. The other two were
apparently looted from somewhere else, perhaps an archaeological
site. There were scattered incidents of looting from several
museums and archaeological sites across the country during the
January Revolution, and the extent of the thefts remains
unclear. The statues are all of bronze and depict important gods
such as Osiris, god of the afterlife, pictured here in an image
courtesy of user Rama via Wikimedia Commons. This is not one of
the recovered statues. The statues date to the Late Period, a
period dating from 664 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in
323 BC. This era saw a final flowering of Egyptian art and
religion before it went through a long period of domination and
decline under Greeks and Roman rule. When the Roman Empire
converted to Christianity, poo