King Tut gets a new tomb
Tutankhamun was neither the brightest nor the most important pharaoh in Egypt’s ancient world. Born around 1361BC, he became king ...
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Fit for a king
WATANI International 26 July 2009 On the Nile bank to the south of Cairo the last king of Egypt, Farouq, built ...
The king of hearts
WATANI International23 January 2011The renowned cardiac surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub has become the most recent in a long line of ...
King in granite
WATANI International10 October 2010Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed part of a 3,000-year-old statue of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, believed to be ...
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