Archaeologists unveil new tombs in Egypt
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Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years &#151; proof, they say, that Egypt's sands still have secrets to reveal.
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A discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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An archaeological excavation at Jerusalem's holiest site is provoking dangerous protests
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Archaeologists identify long-lost mummy of Egypt's most famous female pharaoh.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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Jewelry, weapons, and goat bones are among the artifacts in the cemetery, whose discovery suggests the city's Canaanite settlement was bigger than thought.
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Archaeologists hailed one of the most important finds in Egyptian history on Wednesday after a tooth identified the 3,500-year-old mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh.
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This week: 4,000-year-old tombs opened, stilt walkers perform for Lunar New Year, fatal fire engulfs Jakarta ship, and more.
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The death toll from the collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria rose to 11 on Tuesday after authorities dug six more bodies out of the ruins, security sources said.
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Egypt&#39;s antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza&#39;s three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has cast doubt on whether he will run for a fifth term this year, triggering a fresh battle between the old guard and the young reformers in his ruling party.
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GURNA, Egypt  - Drowning out grumbles from tourist touts and descendants of tomb robbers, bulldozers moved into an Egyptian village near the Valley of the Kings on Saturday at the start of a plan to resettle 3,200 households for the sake of archaeology.
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A new discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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The Jerusalem municipality will submit new plans for a walkway leading to a disputed holy compound, a City Hall spokesman said Monday, but work was scheduled to continue at the site.
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A pair of French Egyptologists who suspect they have found a previously unknown chamber in the Great Pyramid urged Egypt's antiquities chief to reconsider letting them test their theory by drilling new holes in the 4,600-year-old structure.
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A tunnel used by Palestinian weapons smugglers along the Egyptian border collapsed today, burying several people inside. Israeli military sources said the tunnel collapsed while an unknown number of Palestinians
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Archeologists have discovered ancient graves near Ancient Olympia, the hallowed site where the Olympic games were born in 776 B.C., the Culture Ministry said Thursday.