Zahi Hawass

Thieves escaped with 145 Islamic artefacts after raiding a university storage area in Cairo in March, Egypt’s minister of antiquities said on Tuesday.

An Egyptian minister says thieves targeted most-valuable artefacts after breaking in through roof and descending by ropes.

Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country’s ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids.…