A worker inspects the damage in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo on January 26, 2014 after it was hit during a car bomb explosion outside the police headquarters near the museum on January 24 in the capital. The explosion, which happened on the eve of of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising, brought down the museum’s ceilings and damaged exhibits.
(AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
The bombing that took place early morning on 24 January has affected the neighbouring Islamic Art Museum and the Egyptian National Library and Archives. A group of archaeologists and art restorers volunteered to form a taskforce, which visited yesterday the site of the museum to survey the damage.
