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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered six mummies, colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Tuesday. IMAGES
Workmen digging at a farmhouse in southwest England last February discovered a hard layer 18 inches below the surface that turned out to be pieces of a mosaic. Property owner Luke Irwin said he sent a photo of the mosaic to the local council. He told the New York Times that within 24 hours, a team of archeologists were on his property.
Hundreds of passengers wait in the concourse of Gare Montparnasse, while no trains are running due to 'sabotage' on several high-speed TGV train lines. Some 250,000 people are affected over the course of the day, and 800,000 over the entire weekend of the holiday rush and the opening of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and Rachida Dati visit the 'Ateliers Médicis', an artistic creation centre in the Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of Paris, in the first on-site visit for the new French Minister of Culture and declared candidate for Paris mayor. IMAGES
France's new Culture Minister Rachida Dati says she embodies "the cultural diversity that makes our society so rich". At a handover ceremony with predecessor Rima Abdul Malak, Dati vows to fight for France's "cultural exception" to ensure that "culture in France is not just another commodity". SOUNDBITE
Scientists unveil a partial skeleton of a newly discovered whale found in Peru that lived nearly 40 million years ago. A total of 13 gigantic vertebrae -- one of which weighed nearly 200 kilograms (440 pounds) -- were found at a site in a coastal desert of southern Peru, as well as four ribs and a hip bone. IMAGES
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