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Giza Plateau facelift

Giza Pyramid

Giza Plateau facelift

By Hazel Heyer, Special to eTN

On August 11, the Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni inaugurated the first phase of the site management project for the Giza Plateau which includes the installation of electronic entrance gates, t

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Tutankhamun’s baby mummies analyzed

Egypt

Tutankhamun’s baby mummies analyzed

By Hazel Heyer, Special to eTN

In collaboration with the Cairo University ‘s Faculty of Medicine, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) began a scientific project to analyze two mummified fetuses which have been kept in the un

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Cleopatra’s tomb NOT found

Egyptian Tourism

Cleopatra’s tomb NOT found

By Hazel Heyer l eTN

At the archaeological site of Taposiris Magna in Abusir, 45 kilometers north of Alexandria in Egypt, a bronze statue of the goddess Aphrodite, a headless Ptolemaic royal statue, an alabaster head of Queen Cleopatra and a mask thought to be of her lover Mark Anthony have been discovered by an Egyptian-Dominican team headed by Dr.

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Botched smuggling of ancient artifacts

Egypt

Botched smuggling of ancient artifacts

By Hazel Heyer

CAIRO, EGYPT (ETN) - H.E. Farouk Hosni, Egypt's Minister of Culture, announced last that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) stopped in the last hour the sale of two ancient Egyptian objects in London and Holland, in an attempt to save Egypt’s illegally smuggled heritage.

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