(14 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
1. Pan left to right of damaged Sudan’s National Museum’s exterior
2. Mid of damaged mummy
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
++STARTS ON SHOT 2, PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 4, 5 AND 6++
"This rebel militia (Rapid Support Forces) has destroyed everything including all what concerns the Sudanese individual and the civilization of the Sudanese people."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
4. Shards of glass on the ground
5. Mid of damaged display cabinets
6. Mid of damaged coffin
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
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"The losses are extremely big and saddening. As I’ve mentioned, a big number of antiquities was stolen, a significant amount. And this was determined by us being on the ground."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
8. Mid exterior of damaged museum
9. Mid of damaged statues
10. Various mid of damaged artifacts
11. Damage and rubble inside museum
12. Mid of man walking in building
13. Pan right to left of damaged museum
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) al-Mohalel ballah al-Nour, Local resident:
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"The war that took place in Sudan was a very bad one and the destruction was systematic, destruction of the civilization, of the Sudanese individual and the nation as well as education and health. It was on all levels, even the infrastructure, from the airport to bridges, people’s houses and the violations (that took place). In brief, it was a systematic destruction of the whole Sudan."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
15. Mid of interior
16. Mid of statue
17. Various mid of damaged Sudan’s National Museum’s exterior
18. Pan up of damaged office inside museum
19. Various of damage in Khartoum streets
STORYLINE:
A few weeks after the Sudanese army regained control of the capital Khartoum, local officials began assessing the damage in a major museum in the city that has stood for decades as a symbol of Sudan’s rich heritage.
Scarred by nearly two years of war, the museum now lies in ruins: its windows shattered, its once-vibrant halls deserted and littered with dirt, debris, sarcophagi and a few empty display cases around.
A mummy coffin lies open, and most of the artifacts representing various Sudanese civilizations across centuries, including golden relics, have been stolen.
“This rebel militia (Rapid Support Forces) has destroyed everything including all what concerns the Sudanese individual and the civilization of the Sudanese people,” Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, the Museums and Antiquities officer at the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, told the Associated Press.
The Sudan National Museum, which sits on the Nile Avenue in Khartoum, is home to the country’s largest artifacts that date to different eras of Sudanese history, including the early Paleolithic period, Napatan (around 750 BC until 270 BC), Meroetic (around 250 BC–450 AD), Christian (around 540 AD to 1504), and the Islamic (around 1,500 to 1880 AD).
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