Landowner Khaled el-Shahat found two giant Ramesses II statues at Behbeit El Hagar in northern Egypt, and the antiquities ministry sent a team to excavate. Live Science says they add to the evidence of the king's investment in the Isis temple site.
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Egypt lends much of its Fayoum mummy portrait collection abroad for the first time
Egypt will lend a major part of its Fayoum mummy portrait collection to a Rome exhibition, the first time the collection will travel abroad. Egypt's antiquities minister presented the restoration that precedes the loan as a joint Egyptian and Italian project.
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Review of Tutankhamun tomb scans revives the hidden-chamber case ahead of a possible drill test
Mamdouh Eldamaty's team has published a review of geophysical surveys at Tutankhamun's tomb that he says suggests hidden structures beyond its walls. Other experts are cautious, and any link to Nefertiti still rests on scan readings taken through a painted wall.
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Mapping 16 mummies, a dog and nine deposits in tomb TT 209 shows each new burial worked around the ones already there. The team says apparent disorder is partly a recording failure.
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Mamdouh Eldamaty's team combined ground-penetrating radar with the first microgravity measurements taken at KV62 and reports a corridor about two metres wide packed with rubble, with the camera test still waiting on Egyptian permits.
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Microgravity readings suggest low-density, chamber-like structures behind Tutankhamun's north wall
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities is weighing a proposal to drill and send camera-carrying miniature tractors through, on the strength of 1,200 gravity readings and a rereading of surveys that earlier teams called empty.
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A vector tracing of one surviving photograph revives the case that Meretneith ruled as king
The mud stopper excavated at Saqqara in the 1940s is lost, and so is the glass plate. The reading now rests on a scan of the one surviving print, and on two of the four royal emblems in a single row of signs.
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