One of the world most important historical sites, Tutankhamen’s tomb, is to undergo a major restoration programme, according to Egyptian authorities who have partnered up with a US foundation in order to preserve the site.
Five relics stolen from Luxor's Valley of the Kings that ended up in Paris' Louvre museum will be given back to Egypt, a commission of the French museums agency announced on Friday. In return, Cairo pledged to restore ties with the museum.
Hours after Egypt suspended ties with France’s Louvre Museum over allegedly stolen antiquities, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said France was ready to return the relics to Egypt if they were proved to have been stolen.
Egypt has suspended all cooperation with France's Louvre Museum over Pharaonic steles the museum bought, allegedly in the knowledge they were stolen. The Louvre later said that it was "open" to the idea of returning the works.
Our weekly review of Europeans news looks at the continuing dispute between Greece and Britain that loomed over the opening of the new Acropolis Museum and weighs up Jose Manuel Barroso's chances of a second mandate in Brussels.
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An archaeological team that has been digging around the ancient temple of Taposiris Magna in Egypt claims there are indications they may be close to finding the burial ground of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Anthony.
A team of archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic revealed that, after three years of research and the use of a radar scan, they have isolated three possible locations for the tomb of Cleopatra near a temple west of Alexandria.
Egypt has asked the United States to return a pharaonic coffin that was smuggled out of the country more than 125 years ago. In the last six years Egypt has recovered more than 5,500 artefacts taken illegally from the country.
"Peking Man", the name given to homo erectus fossils found near Beijing in the 1920s, could be 750,000 years old, or 200,000 years older than previously thought. The new findings reveal different migration routes during the Ice Age.
