The Egyptian Museum in Cairo

This guide to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo returns to the night of January 28, 2011, when Tahrir Square was in revolt and a handful of men dropped through a skylight into the darkened galleries to hunt for gold among four thousand years of pharaonic treasure. It follows what they tore apart inside, and what the demonstrators fighting police just outside the doors chose to do when they looked up and saw what was happening to their museum. Listen for how close Tutankhamun's mask came to being touched that night.