{"id":185123,"date":"2024-11-22T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-national-treasures-have-been-stolen-we-spoke-with-the-director-of-museums\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:40:10","slug":"sudans-national-treasures-have-been-stolen-we-spoke-with-the-director-of-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-national-treasures-have-been-stolen-we-spoke-with-the-director-of-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s National Treasures Have Been Stolen &#8211; We Spoke With the Director of Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">In September, amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sudans-civil-war-has-left-at-least-62-000-dead-by-our-estimate-but-the-true-figure-could-be-far-higher-242073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing war<\/a> in Sudan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/sudan-national-museum-khartoum-artefacts-looted#:%7E:text=Tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20artefacts%20looted%20from%20Sudan%20museum%2C%20says%20official,-This%20article%20is&amp;text=Tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20artefacts%20have%20been%20looted%20from%20a,at%20the%20institution%20has%20said.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> began to surface of the looting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/momaa.org\/directory\/sudan-national-museum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan National Museum<\/a> in the capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/khartoum-the-creation-and-the-destruction-of-a-modern-african-city-205705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khartoum<\/a>. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a world stretching from the sands of the Sahara to the grasslands of the Sahel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Its <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/looting-of-the-sudan-national-museum-more-is-at-stake-than-priceless-ancient-treasures-238528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artefacts<\/a> range from the distant stone age, to one of sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s earliest metropolises in <a href=\"https:\/\/kerma.ch\/en\/history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerma<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411220024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a world stretching from the sands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":185124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651844:4d0e3d8b4827d6d2e3702ed8d61bcca8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,400,7916,6687,257,254,25806,8996,1613,8105,29514],"class_list":["post-185123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-director","tag-museums","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spoke","tag-stolen","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-treasures"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651844:4d0e3d8b4827d6d2e3702ed8d61bcca8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}