CAIRO: The Higher Council of Universities formed a committee to create an inventory for the collection inside the Egyptian Museum, according to the decision of the public prosecution. The committee will start work on Sunday by creating an inventory of the second department of the museum that includes pharaonic monuments. The head of the committee, Amal al-Omry, told Youm7 the first department already has an inventory created by another committee, formed by the Public Prosecution in 2005. She clarified the committee, lead by Dr. Ramadan Abodou al-Sayed, didn't finished the final report yet. Al-Omry added the Egyptian Museum includes seven departments to be created an inventory for in order, according to the plan the committee put in recent meetings. She said the creating inventories will continue for years since the museum includes a lot of artifacts. The Secretary General of the Higher Council of Antiquities, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maksood, said the museum includes over a 100,000 artifacts, recorded on 120 paper documents and electronically. He clarified this is not the first time to create an inventory for the Egyptian museum. Dr. Mahmoud al-Helwagy said the museum, especially the first department, had an inventory created many times before and confirms the inventory process continues for years each time. He said that the inventory process always is always a result of complaints the museum gets through a robbery attempt.
