Al-Ahram Weekly

Highlight of the month
Pharaoh's place of pride
Last weekEgypt held a gala to celebrate the retrieval of the bottom part of the coffin of the Pharaoh Akhenaten more than 70 years after its mysterious disappearance from Cairo's Egyptian Museum, Nevine El-Aref reports.

New glow for the rose red city
Petra, the legacy of the Nabataeans, an industrious Semitic people who settled in what is now south Jordan more than 2000 years ago, is at the centre of a move to promote tourism in Jordan. Mahmoud Bakr explored the rock-hewn city

Dig days
Dancing with Tomb Robbers (5)
By Zahi Hawass

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 14 - 20 February 2002 Issue No.573
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