CLeopatra is once again taking on the big screen treatment, this time courtesy of Wonder Woman director Patti Jenkins and the DC heroine herself, Gail Gadot. But even with a female director and female screenwriter in Ladeta Klagridis, the role of an Israeli actor with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage as Egypt’s …
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Dozens of 2,500-year-old coffins found in Egypt’s giant Sakkara necropolis went on display Saturday. 59 coffins belonging to 26th Dynasty Egyptian priests and clerks were found south of Cairo in August. He was buried in three 30- to 40-foot shafts, including 28 statues of the ancient Egyptian god Seker, according …
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Archaeologists have unearthed 27 ancient wooden coffins buried in Egypt over 2,500 years in the largest search of its kind. Archaeologists made 13 discoveries earlier this month and have since found 14 more Ancient wooden sarcophagi have been buried for about 2500 years The discovery was found in the ancient …
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Egypt on Friday arrested a top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the latest to be picked up by Cairo’s long-running action against the banned Islamist group. Mahmoud Ezzat, the group’s acting leader, has already received two death sentences in absentia, as well as life imprisonment. Egypt has imprisoned thousands of …
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TEL AVIV / GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli planes and tanks hit Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen missiles at southern Israel, his army said, as mediators struggled to work for peace at the fleeing border. Smoke rises after Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip 28 …
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