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Hidden treasure

, January 18, 2017

A tourist looks on a painted, wooden anthropoid coffin of a man dated 22nd to 25th dynasties, which was found in the basement of the Museum without any indications, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt on January 17. The Egyptian Museum begins the documentation, conservation and preservation project of wooden coffins located in the basement of the museum and those found on its third floor, under the project granted by the US Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (ASCP).  EPA/Khaled Elfiqi
 




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