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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
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 Touna 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
In this Oct. 30, 2013 photo, the solid gold mask of King Tutankhamun is seen in its glass case, in the Egyptian Museum near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
May 8, 2017, 9:24 am
Experts meet in Egypt over moving King Tut artifacts
Officials searching for safest method to transfer items following damage to burial mask in 2014
By MENNA ZAKI
Egyptian archaeologists work on a wooden coffin discovered in a 3,500-year-old tomb in the Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis, near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, April 18, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
April 18, 2017, 7:42 pm
Mummies, over 1,000 statues discovered in 3,500-year-old tomb in Egypt
Ancient burial chambers of a nobleman named Userhat near Luxor include colorful sarcophagi and other ritual items
By Mohamed Abdel Aziz
Illustrative: The president of the Egyptian Jewish Community, Magda Shehata Haroun, talks during an interview with AFP at the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo, also known as Temple Ismailia or Adly Synagogue in downtown Cairo on October 3, 2016. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
March 26, 2017, 6:41 am
Egypt’s last Jews aim to keep heritage alive
With their mass-exodus to Israel after 1948, an ancient community that once numbered over 100,000 now counts perhaps 18 souls struggling to maintain empty synagogues
By Emmanuel Parisse
A section of King Khufu's papyri displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, July 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Raai)
July 14, 2016, 8:48 pm
In first, oldest Egyptian writing on papyrus displayed
Text from Great Pyramid of Giza sheds light on daily lives of port workers during reign of King Khufu in 26th century BCE
By AFP
This undated photo released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows a part of sarcophagus cover in Israel. Israel's Antiquities Authority says the colorful sarcophagus covers date back as early as the 16th and 10th centuries BCE. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)
June 22, 2016, 2:36 am
Plundered sarcophagi arrive in Egypt via Israel
Stolen covers smuggled into Israel set to go on display at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum
By Ilan Ben Zion and AP
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