A water leak damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a bra...

A water leak damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure. “Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers. The Louvre said there would be an internal investigation into the November leak, which was caused by the accidental opening of a valve in the heating and ventilation system that led to water seeping through the ceiling of the Mollien wing, where the books were stored. The “completely obsolete” system had been shut down for months and was due to be replaced from September 2026, the museum administrator added. https://lnkd.in/gHK-vyTy