Al-Ahram Weekly Online   15 - 21 January 2009
Issue No. 930
Heritage
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Looted statuette returned
A ten-centimetre-high bronze statuette stolen from the National Museum of Iraq during the American-British invasion in 2003 is back home, Nevine El-Aref reports.
A queen, a boat and a temple: This season on the dig
Remains of Queen Sesheshet's mummy in the Saqqara necropolis, a logistic settlement at Ain Sokhna and a series of pavements in Beni Sweif are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports

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