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Egypt's antiquities ministry
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January 8, 2025, 9:07 pm
Egypt unveils new discoveries near Luxor, including 3,600-year-old burial shafts
Archaeologists find sealed coffin, archery bows in Queen Hatshepsut’s Valley Temple, dating back to 16th century BCE, coins from 3rd century CE with image of Alexander the Great
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Joint US-Egypt archaeology team unearths 4,000-year-old tomb in Luxor
11 coffins for men, women and children found inside necropolis, suggesting it was a family tomb
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March 6, 2023, 9:10 pm
Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue from 2,000 years ago
Researchers also find Roman-era stone slab with demotic and hieroglyphic inscriptions; shrine includes a two-layer platform and mud-brick basin from Byzantine era
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June 27, 2021, 12:12 pm
Egypt arrests former lawmaker for allegedly smuggling antiquities
Flamboyant ex-MP Alaa Hassanein suspected of leading group that stole tablets, statues, Classical-era coins, black basalt plates; allegations carry life sentence
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January 30, 2020, 10:46 pm
Egyptian archaeologists unveil ancient tombs, 2,500-year-old artifacts
Find includes 20 limestone sarcophagi etched with hieroglyphs, hundreds of amulets and 10,000 blue funerary statues dating to 664-399 BCE
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July 9, 2019, 5:00 pm
Egypt asks Interpol to help retrieve King Tut statue
Egypt’s National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation will sue Christie’s, says auction house didn’t prove ownership of sculpture it sold for $5.9 million
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July 1, 2019, 8:01 am
Tutankhamun sculpture’s London auction sparks Egyptian outcry
Ownership of art piece can apparently only be traced back to 1970s; Cairo wants representation of pharaoh’s head returned to its country of origin
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Dmitry Zaks
April 14, 2019, 6:14 am
Egypt unveils tomb still bursting with color after 4,300 years
Necropolis filled with ornate paintings discovered south of Cairo thought to have belonged to a Fifth Dynasty nobleman
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February 2, 2019, 4:55 pm
Egypt discovers 40 mummies in ancient chambers in Minya
Officials say chambers belonged to middle-class family who probably lived during Ptolemaic, early Roman or Byzantine period
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September 16, 2018, 7:39 pm
Archaeologists discover ancient sphinx in Egypt
Sandstone figurine found in Temple of Kom Ombo during work to protect the site from groundwater; said to date to Ptolemaic times
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February 3, 2018, 2:56 pm
4,400-year-old tomb discovered outside Cairo
Antiquities Ministry believes burial site found near pyramids belonged to a high-ranking official known as Hetpet during 5th Dynasty
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December 3, 2017, 10:44 pm
27 fragmented statues of lion goddess found in southern Egypt
Supreme Council of Antiquities says Sekhmet busts unearthed are six and a half feet tall and carved in black granite
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November 14, 2017, 7:58 pm
Archaeologists find well-preserved mummy in Egypt
Antiquities ministry says mummified body from Greco-Roman period discovered south of Cairo
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August 24, 2017, 10:31 pm
Egypt archaeologists uncover Roman era tombs
Three mausoleums ‘of different shapes and sizes’ discovered in excavation of ancient burial ground
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May 13, 2017, 5:48 pm
17 mummies found in ancient Egyptian burial site
Antiquities ministry hails ‘unprecedented’ discovery in south Cairo necropolis as a boost to struggling tourism industry
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Haitham el-Tabei
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