The golden mask is guaranteed a ‘safe transportation and restoration process’ by a team who have ‘left nothing to chance’
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An exhibition displaying the different styles and shapes of footwear in ancient Egypt is to open under the auspices of the Ministry of Antiquities tomorrow evening at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir
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Legal measures are being taken to stop the sale of illegally smuggled antiquities in London
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Basalt blocks of King Nakhtanebu I's shrine were unearthed today in Matariya area in Ain Shams, Cairo
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A New Kingdom relief illegally smuggled out of the country has been retrieved from England
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France offered the NMEC director the government’s highest award for his devotion to Egyptology and Egyptian archaeologists
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Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty tells Ahram Online his expectations and plans regarding Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves' theory on the location of Nefertiti’s crypt
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Reeves announces in a press conference held today that Tutankhamun’s gold funerary mask originally belonged to Queen Nefertiti
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Egypt’s minister of antiquities posits that the hidden chamber behind Tutankhamun’s tomb’s northern wall could be of his mother Kiya
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Examinations completed on Monday indicate the theory of British archeologist Nicholas Reeves may well be right
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The stolen sixth dynasty wooden statuette will be repatriated to Egypt in October
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Radar examination is to be used to determine whether Nefertiti is buried inside the tomb of her son-in-law, King Tutankhamun
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Archaeologist Nicholas Reeves is to arrive to Luxor, 28 September, in the hope of confirming his theory on the location of Nefertiti's final resting place in Tutankhamun's tomb
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The boy king's resting place will undergo restoration work
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The temporary exhibition will showcase objects borrowed from a number of other museums
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The golden funerary mask of Tutankhamun is to be removed from its permanent display case at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in October
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The ancient water-way was a key transport link for the 26th Dynasty and was lost to silt around two millennia ago
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Egypt invented a conservation material made of nuclear power to restore artefacts
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Studies will confirm whether the brickwork dates back to the Fatimid Caliphate
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The mask was accidentally broken by Egyptian Museum staff in 2014
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