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Hagar Hosny

Hagar Hosny

Oct 27, 2022

Statues of Pharaonic Gods Horus and Khnum are displayed at the museum on April 4, 2021, in Cairo, Egypt. — Statues of Pharaonic Gods Horus and Khnum are displayed at the museum on April 4, 2021, in Cairo, Egypt. — Jonathan Rashad/Getty Images

This handout photo released by Egypt's official news agency MENA shows an Egyptian archaeological team opening the solid gold sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to run the mummy under the computer tomography scanner, Luxor, Egypt, Jan. 5, 2005.

Mummies with gold tongues uncovered in Lower Egypt

Mohammed Magdy

In Berlin, reporting on Egyptian politics

This photo shows a wooden sarcophagus discovered among many archaeological finds in 3000-year-old communal tombs dedicated to high priests, in al-Ghoreifa in Tuna al-Jabal, Minya governorate, Egypt, Jan. 30, 2020.

Egypt unveils tombs dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt

Ahmed Gomaa

The entrance is seen inside a newly discovered tomb dating to the Ptolemaic era at the Diabat necropolis near the city of Akhmim, Sohag province, Egypt, April 5, 2019.

Egyptian mission unearths 85 tombs, temple for Isis goddess in Upper Egypt

Ibrahim Ayyad

A general view shows the temple of Tasposiris Magna, which was built in honour of the ancient Egyptian deity Isis in the Greco-Roman period, near Borg al-Arab, 50 kms (30 miles) west of Alexandria, on April 19, 2009. Archaeologists searching for the tomb of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra may be closer to locating the burial site of the legendary lovers, Egypt's antiquities council said. A team led by antiquities chief Zahi Hawass believes the tomb may be located in three possible sites near the temple and will

Major new discovery of mummies in Alexandria from Greco-Roman era

Alaa Omran