CAIRO -- Soldiers detained about 50 men trying to break into the Egyptian National Museum in a fresh attempt to loot some of the country's archaeological treasures, the military said Monday.

CAIRO - Heated clashes between protesters and the military continued Friday in Egypt, but the historic treasures in Cairo's Egyptian Museum are safe for now, after army units secured the site ...

CAIRO — Yasmin el Shazly, an Egyptologist, last gave a VIP tour through the Egyptian Museum ... Ten army tanks and long strings of barbed wire lined the streets to protect the already-once ...

Behind it lies the world-famous Egyptian Museum. After a break-in late last ... They formed a "human chain" to protect the museum from looters until the army came to secure it. "What happened in Egypt ...

The Egyptian army ... protect our national treasure,” said one of the men, Farid Saad, a 40-year-old engineer. Another man, 26-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim, said it was important to guard the museum ...

They had no information yet on whether items were missing. The Egyptian Museum remains closed and guarded by an army unit, but workers are cleaning the vast building and the garden around it.

the Egyptian Museum has selected nine artefacts from its collection that highlight the Egyptian army in ancient times to be put to the vote on Facebook for its “October piece of the month.” ...