Aswan

A significant discovery was made by archaeologists from Italy and Egypt, who found 33 family tombs containing mummies in the area of the Aga Khan Mausoleum, west of Aswan.

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Egyptian authorities said on Jan. 10 they had detained three people for trying to steal a millennia-old 10-ton statue of the pharaoh Ramses II with a crane.

"How was Egypt? Did you see the Pyramids?" This is the first question any visitor to the Northern African country would normally hear upon arrival at the airport of their respective hometown. Answering "no" would make friends or family members coming to welcome you at the airport frown with a question on their lips.

Some 59 skeletons were found in 1964, lying together in a gravesite beside the Nile Rıver, near what is now the Egyptian-Sudanese border. They died between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago, and some of them seemed to have died in battle. That was big news half a century ago, when most people still believed organized killing was an invention of civilization.