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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Egypt's antiquities ministry

A display showcases a stele and multiple artifacts during a media event to announce new discoveries by an Egyptian archaeological mission at Queen Hatshepsut's Valley Temple in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor on January 8, 2025. (Khaled Desouk/AFP)
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
By AP
Assembly of finds from a new discovery of 11 sealed Middle Kingdom burials in Luxor. Here, shown from Burial 2: a copper or copper alloy mirror with an ivory handle displaying the rather rare design of a four-faced Hathor presenting her as a woman with austere features. (South Asasif Conservation Project)
November 2, 2024, 8:12 pm
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
By AP and ToI Staff
In this undated photo distributed March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered from an archaeological site in Qena, Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via AP)
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
By AP
In this April 24, 2021 file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo, April 24, 2021 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
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
By AFP
One of the sarcophagi discovered in the village of Tuna al-Gabal, near the Nile Valley city of Minya. (Egypt’s antiquities ministry via AP)
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
By AHMED HATEM and MOHAMED SALAH
This image released by Christie's on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, shows a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun at Christie's in London. (Christie's via AP)
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
By Agencies
This image released by Christie's on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, shows a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun at Christie's in London. (Christie's via AP)
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
By Dmitry Zaks
This picture taken on April 13, 2019 shows a view inside the newly-discovered tomb of the ancient Egyptian nobleman "Khewi" dating back to the 5th dynasty at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt. (Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)
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
By AFP
Mummies lie in a recently discovered burial chamber in the desert province of Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt on February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Roger Anis)
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
By AP
This undated photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities shows a lion's body and a human head, in the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, Egypt. The Antiquities Ministry said on September 16, 2018 that the sphinx made of sandstone was found in the temple during work to protect the site from groundwater. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)
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
By AP
A general view shows well-preserved and rare wall paintings inside the tomb of an Old Kingdom priestess on the Giza plateau on the southern outskirts of Cairo, that was unveiled on February 3, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
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
By AP and AFP
Illustrative: Two statues of the Sekhmet sun goddess in the "Ägyptisches Museum" of Berlin. (Courtesy: Wikipedia Commons)
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
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a mummy at the British Museum in London. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Klafubra, Wikipedia)
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
By AFP
The Bei’r Al-Shaghala burial site in Dakhla. (Egypt Ministry of Antiquities)
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
By AFP
Illustrative: Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany (C) speaks to the media on May 13, 2017, in front of mummies following their discovery in catacombs in the Tuna el-Gabal district of the Minya province, in central Egypt. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
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
By Haitham el-Tabei
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