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• Several mummies unearthed in ancient tomb near Egypt’s Luxor

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed several mummies, colorful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the city of Luxor hailed as an "important discovery".

• 2,000 year-old Roman summer home discovered in southern Turkey

Archaeologists in Turkey's southern Burdur province have discovered a 2,000 year-old summer palace belonging to a Roman emperor, reports said on Tuesday.

• Archaeologists dispatched to newly-unearthed site in southeast Iran

TEHRAN – Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Organization has dispatched a cluster of archaeologists to the outskirts of Fahraj in Kerman Province, where a wave of recent tremendous sandstorms discovered vestiges of what believed to be an a

• Prehistoric Iran, Persian Garden under spotlight at German museum

TEHRAN – Separate exhibitions on Iran’s prehistoric cultural heritage and Persian Garden open to the public today at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany -- Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – in Bonn.

• 30,000 sunken relics unearthed in SW China

After nearly 100 days of archeological excavations, more than 300,000 pieces of cultural relics have been unearthed at the Pengshan district of Meishan, Southwest China's Sichuan province.

• Beijing's Palace Museum showcases treasures from Afghanistan

A cultural artifact on display at the Palace Museum in Beijing, borrowed from the National Museum of Afghanistan.

• China retrieves sunken treasure linked to leader of ancient uprising

Chinese archeologists announced Thursday they have excavatedmore than 30,000 relics from a riverbed. They are believed to be treasures owned by theleader of an ancient uprising.

• Secrets of Mongolian mummy buried in 'Adidas' shoes 1,100 years ago

The ancient mummy's beautiful red and black stripy boots have been restored.

• Nijo Castle’s gleaming gate looks as good as new after repairs

KYOTO--Nijo Castle’s main gate is looking back to its majestic best after the completion of extensive repair to the entrance of the UNESCO World Heritage site in this ancient capital.

• Graeco-Roman artefacts discovered at future Alexandria residential site

Excavators from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities have discovered a collection of Graeco-Roman artefacts during excavation work carried out in Alexandria’s Babour El-Maya area.

• Polish archaeologists have discovered the oldest ancient houses of Nea Paphos in Cyprus

The oldest remains of the ancient city of Nea Paphos in Cyprus have been discovered by Warsaw archaeologists during excavations. Approximately 2.4 thousand years old fragments of walls and floors are located in the part of the city inhabited by the riches

• Anatolia’s oldest olive oil press found in southern Turkey's Antalya

chaeologists have discovered Anatolia's oldest olive oil press, dating back 2,000 years, in the Lyrboton Kome settlement located near the southern Turkish city of Antalya.

• China archaeologists find beauty in 10 top sites for 2016

Chinese archaeologists worked at more than 2,000 sites in 2016, and experts have selected the 10 best ones.

• Origin of Genghis Khan's skilled horse-riding culture revealed in sacred Bronze Age burial mounds

The 3,200-year-old mounds showed horses were buried individually nearby human graves.

• Ancient civilizations on show at Amasra Museum

The Amasra Museum, home to more than 3,000 archaeological and ethnographical artifacts from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, reveals the northern province of Bartın’s 5,000-year-old history.

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