articles/New evidence of art theft in Cairo — theartnewspaper.com

The story since the bomb blast at Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art in January has brought twists worthy of a detective novel. Amid reports that social unrest and economic crisis in Egypt may be fuelling the black market in cultural artefacts, photographs have emerged showing that a large wooden frieze has been stripped from the interior of the 1304 Mausoleum of Salar and Sanjar, in Saliba Street, old Cairo.

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