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- Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Statues weighing up to five tonnes and thought to be of one of ancient Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Ramses II have been found at a sun temple northeast of Cairo in ancient Heliopolis, a region known in ancient times for sun worship and where the Council says a calendar based on the solar year was invented.
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- US urged to return Egyptian mask
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  The mask, discovered in 1952 in the pyramid at Saqqara, near Cairo, is said to date back to the 19th Dynasty, 1307-1196BC.
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- Egyptians Provide Peek Inside Newfound Tomb
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  The tomb has five wooden sarcophagi with painted funeral masks, probably contains members of an 18th Dynasty pharaoh's court.
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- New Tomb Found in Valley of Kings
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  American archaeologists have uncovered a 18th Dynasty tomb containing five mummies in intact sarcophagi with colored funerary masks along with more than 20 large storage jars, sealed with pharaonic seals in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.
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- Red Sea ferry survivors say captain fled
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Hopes faded of finding some 800 missing people. Some passengers, plucked alive from the sea or from boats after the ferry caught fire and sank early on Friday, said crew members had told them not to worry about the blaze below deck and even ordered them to take off lifejackets.
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- Rescuers save 231 after ferry sinks
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  Search and rescue teams have found 231 survivors and 185 dead bodies so far after the ship sank during a crossing from the Saudi port of Duba to Safaga, 600 km (375 miles) southeast of Cairo.
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- Dozens of Bodies, Survivors in Red Sea
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  The 35-year-old ship, "Al-Salam Boccaccio 98," an Egyptian ferry, carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea early Friday during bad weather, and rescue ships and helicopters pulled dozens of survivors and bodies from the water, an official said. About 180 escaped on lifeboats.
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Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs

Would make a great Indiana Jones movie, “The Curse of the Golden Spitbowl”

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