Relics stolen and mummy coffins looted as country’s biggest museum ravaged by war

Sudan Looted Mummy coffins lie destroyed on the ground at the Sudan National Museum, the home to the country's largest artifacts that date to different eras of Sudanese history, after nearly two years of war between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Abd Al Gader) - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Inside the museum, display cases stand empty and shattered and a mummy lies exposed in an open storage box. All the gold artifacts have been looted.

This is the scene in Sudan's biggest museum where the exhibition halls once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient civilizations are trashed, littered with debris.