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          Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Grieken. Jun 8, 2023. Mike Bink

          Dutch museum hopes to change Egypt's ban on Saqqara excavation

          EgyptJune 08, 2023
          Build in 1269 at the start of Mamluk rule in Egypt, the Zaher Baybars Mosque's renovation cost more than 237 million Egyptian pounds. Kamal Tabikha/The National

          Egypt's Zaher Baybars mosque reopens after 15-year restoration

          EgyptJune 04, 2023
          A reconstruction of Tutankhamun by Cicero Moraes. Photo: Cicero Moraes

          Tutankhamun's 'delicate' face reconstructed digitally for first time

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          Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, displays a newly discovered wooden coffin at the Saqqara necropolis south-east of Cairo. Mahmoud Nasr / The National

          Embalming rooms for humans and animals among latest finds at Egypt's Saqqara necropolis

          EgyptMay 27, 2023
          Giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia with its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller African species Cyonosaurus. Matt Celeskey.

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          An aerial view of a desert kite in Jebel Az Zilliyat, Saudi Arabia. Photo: O. Barge / CNRS

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          University of Oxford researchers identified three new Roman fortified camps - in the typical playing card shape' - across northern Arabia. PA

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          A joint Dutch-Italian archaeological mission has discovered a cemetery and four small chapels dating to the Ramesside era in Egypt’s Saqqara. Photo: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Facebook

          Ancient tombs and chapels unearthed in Egypt’s Saqqara

          EgyptApril 12, 2023
          One of 12 severed hands discovered by archaeologists in northern Egypt. Photo: Nature

          Severed hands found in Egypt are proof of gruesome war practice, study says

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          HeritageMarch 29, 2023
          Mummified ram heads uncovered during excavation work at the temple of Rameses II in Abydos. Reuters

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          EgyptMarch 27, 2023
          The Umayyad coin found at the Halit archaeological site. Saudi Arabia Heritage Commission

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          GulfMarch 15, 2023
          The sphinx and the cabin were unearthed near the Temple of Dandra in Qena. Photo: Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities

          Roman-era cabin and sphinx statue found in southern Egypt

          EgyptMarch 06, 2023
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          Hidden passage uncovered in Egypt's Great Pyramid

          MENAMarch 02, 2023
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          Egyptian team that found prehistoric turtles says more discoveries to come

          EgyptFebruary 24, 2023
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