#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/24/2010 #3

Visitors walk inside the 3,200-year-old Abu Simbel temple located on the upper reaches of the Nile River in Egypt to watch the dawn light up the temple’s inner sanctum to mark the anniversary of Ramses II’s birthday. The axis of the temple was positioned in such a way that rays from the sun would shine into the inner sanctuary only twice a year - on Ramses II birthday and the day of his coronation.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/03/2010 #5

The newly unearthed 3,400-year-old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the city of Luxor.

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/11/2012 #1

The oldest-known representations of a pharaoh are carved on rocks near the Nile River in southern Egypt, researchers report.

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/15/2014 #1

This wooden sarcophagus was uncovered in Luxor, southern Egypt. The 3,600-year-old sarcophagus, which dates to 1600 B.C., during the reign of the pharaonic 17th dynasty, was recovered with a mummy still inside, according to Egypt’s antiquities minister.

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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/17/2014 #1

A wooden sarcophagus is lifted from the ground in Luxor, Egypt.

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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/23/2014 #4

People visit the Great Temple of Ramses II to observe the sun sending a beam of light into the ancient temple’s dark inner chamber for ten minutes, in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Hundreds of people visited the temple to watch the sun illuminate the colossal statues, a rare 3,200-year-old astronomical ceremony that happens twice a year.

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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/10/2014 #2

Journalists visit the Sphinx on a media tour following the completion of restoration work in preparation for the reopening of the courtyard around its base, in Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, Sunday.

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#8 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/04/2015 #4

Carvings are seen on a wall at the Horemheb tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypts antiquities minister said King Tut’s tomb may contain hidden chambers, lending support to a British Egyptologist’s theory that a queen may be buried in the walls of the 3,300-year-old pharaonic mausoleum.

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#9 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/21/2015 #4

German restorer Christian Eckmann examines the beard of the golden mask of King Tutankhamun as an Egyptian-German team begins restoration work over a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy, at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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#10 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/11/2015 #1

A worker waits for tourists in front of the Sphinx on the outskirts of Cairo. Egypt’s tourism minister, Hisham Zaazou, has said the government is working to secure its airports and tourist sites amid safety concerns.

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/03/2016 #2

Members of American football teams play with a football in front of the Sphinx and Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, Monday. A group of players from the National Football League (NFL), representing American Football Without Barriers, came to help train local enthusiasts and players as part of a promotion for American football.

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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/02/2016 #3

King Khufu’s solar boat is displayed at a museum on the northern side of Khufu’s Great Pyramid, in Giza, Egypt, on Wednesday.

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#13 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/10/2017 #4

Archaeologists work on mummies found in the 3,500 year old New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith in a burial shaft, in Luxor, Egypt.

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#14 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/02/2017 #2

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#15 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/25/2018 #3

Egyptian antiquities worker is seen inside the recently discovered burial site in Minya, Egypt.

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#16 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 10/18/2018 #10

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#17 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 11/05/2018 #3

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#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/16/2018 #3

Mostafa Abdo, overseer of diggers at an archaeological excavation site at the Saqqara necropolis, thirty kilometers south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, walks in a newly discovered tomb which belonged to the high priest “Wahtye” who served during the fifth dynasty reign of King Neferirkare (between 2500 - 2300 BC).

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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 12/17/2018 #1

Statues inside the newly discovered tomb of Wahtye, which dates from the rule of King Neferirkare Kakai, in the Saqqara area near its necropolis.

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#20 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/02/2019 #3

Luxor, Egypt • A group of tourists look at the golden sarcophagus of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, displayed in his burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile river. The famous tomb underwent a 9-year conservation by a team of international specialists.

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#21 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/04/2019 #2

Minya, Egypt • Mummies dating to the Ptolemaic era (305BC - 30BC) at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel. Archaeologists from Minya University recently unearthed a collection of Ptolemaic burial chambers engraved in rock and filled with a large number of mummies of different sizes.

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#22 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/04/2019 #3

An archaeologist works on a mummy inside the newly excavated tombs in Tuna el-Gebel necropolis of Minya province south of the capital Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian minister of antiquities announced on Saturday the discovery of three ancient tombs with more than forty well preserved mummies in Tuna el-Gebel necropolis of Minya Province south of the capital Cairo.

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#23 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/23/2019 #3

Abu Simbel, Egypt • The sun sends a beam of light into the dark inner chamber of the Great Temple of Ramses II for more than 10 minutes. Thousands of people visited the temple to watch the sun illuminate the statues in the sanctuary, a 3,200-year-old astronomical event that happens twice a year.

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#24 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/12/2019 #3

An Egyptian archaeologist works on the sarcophagi at the newly discovered burial site, the Tomb of Behnui-Ka and Nwi, dating back to circa 2,500 B.C. near the Great Pyramids in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.

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#25 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 10/21/2019 #4

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#26 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/05/2020 #1

A sarcophagus that is around 2,500 years old, is seen inside the newly discovered burial site near Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, in Giza, Egypt.

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#27 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 11/17/2020 #1

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#28 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/04/2021 #2

In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt. #Tutankhamun #Egypt

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#29 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/23/2022 #3

Abu Simbel, Egypt • The sun illuminates sculptures in the inner sanctuary of the Ramses II’s Great Temple. The sun lights the temple’s inner sanctuary only twice a year, occasions believed to mark the pharaoh’s birthday and day of coronation.

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#30 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/13/2022 #2

London, UK • A plaster cast of a battle scene from the temple at Karnak is displayed during the Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt exhibition at the British Museum. The exhibition, which marks 200 years since the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, explores the inscriptions and objects that helped academics unlock an ancient civilisation.

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#31 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 02/27/2023 #1

Giza, Egypt • Tourists visit open areas of the grand hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Still under construction, some parts of the museum are being put into trial operation. Once fully open, it will be one of the largest museums in the world.

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#32 Click this link to see Twitter Roundup page --> 08/27/2023 #5

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#33 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 10/20/2023 #1

Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt • A mummy coffin inside a rock-cut tomb at a cemetery dating back to the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt has been unearthed at Tuna el-Gebel necropolis.

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