UNESCO to help Egypt museum recover from blast

By Maggie Hyde

Published January 26, 2014 3:56pm ET

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UNESCO to help Egypt museum recover from blast — Egyptian plainclothes policemen stand guard in front of the Museum of Islamic Art at the site of a suicide car bomb at the Egyptian police headquarters in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. Egypt's antiquities minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the explosion badly damaged the facade of the 19th century museum and artifacts inside, including a rare collection of Islamic art objects dating back to 1881. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) | Amr Nabil

CAIRO (AP) — A UNESCO team will travel to Cairo to assess the damage inflicted on a renowned Islamic art museum by a bombing targeting the nearby security headquarters, Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities said Sunday.

The museum will also receive $100,000 from the U.N. cultural agency to help the museum recover from the explosion, which damaged much of the museum’s artifacts, Mohammed Ibrahim said.

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