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Stolen Egyptian mummy coffins surface in Jerusalem

Thieves unable to keep the lid on ancient sarcophagi in Israel.

Scans show throat-slitting end for Egypt's last Pharaoh

Tests shed light on King Ramesses III's disputed death.

3,000-year-old "Frankenstein" mummies found in Scotland

A picture taken on April 26, 2009 shows a wooden coffin containing a linen-wrapped mummy found in a necropolis southeast of the pyramid field of Lahun at the entrance of Egypt's Fayyum oasis, some 130 km southwest of Cairo.

Khaled Desouki

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