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In this April 24, 2021, file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo. As some European countries reopen to international tourists, Egypt has already been trying for months to attract them to its archaeological sites and museums. Officials are betting that the new ancient discoveries will set it apart on the mid- and post-pandemic tourism market. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt bets on ancient finds to pull tourism out of pandemic

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2013 file photo, Egypt's Pope Tawadros II visits al-Muharraq Monastery, in Assiut province, Egypt. On Sunday, May 9, 2021, Egyptian officials said authorities have executed a defrocked monk convicted of the 2018 killing of Bishop Epiphanius, an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo. The abbot’s killing has exposed a side of the church that few in Egypt — Muslim or Christian — knew existed, including the growing power and independence of monks in remote monasteries who appear to be at odds with Pope Tawadros II and the church’s central leadership. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Egypt executes defrocked monk convicted of abbot’s killing

FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, medical workers tend to coronavirus patients in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya. Amid concerns over India, Kenya, which is coming down from a recent peak in cases, halted flights with the country for two weeks, while Nigeria suspended flights with India, Brazil and Turkey, fearing new virus strains could come in as it tries to bring down cases, particularly in Lagos, home to some 20 million people. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

India’s disaster hangs over countries facing COVID-19 surges

Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Sedat Onal, seated right, meets with Hamdi Sanad Loza, Egyptian deputy foreign minister along with their delegations, at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt, Turkey officials meet for talks to reset frayed ties

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute

FILE- In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019, file photo, a Dassault Rafale fighter jet performs its demonstration flight at Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, north east of Paris, France. Egypt is buying another 30 Rafale fighter jets from France, building up its fleet of the advanced warplane to 54, second only to the French Air Force. Both countries confirmed the deal separately on Tuesday. The Egyptian military said the purchase would be financed with a 10-year French loan. The value of the deal wasn't given. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori, File)

Rights critics condemn French sale to Egypt of 30 more jets

Italy: Hearing delayed in slaying case against Egyptians

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Egyptian security forces lift the lifeless body of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces deployed in the town of Kerdasa, close to the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. On Monday, April 26, 2021, executed nine men convicted of murder in the attack on a police station in 2013, security officials and a rights lawyer said. The assault resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including 11 police. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan, File)

Egypt officials: 9 men executed for 2013 attack on police

Egypt’s national soccer team coach positive for coronavirus

Russia to resume flights to Egypt after 6-year hiatus

FILE - In this Sunday, April 18, 2021 file photo, people gather at the site where a passenger train derailed killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 98 others, near Banha, Qalyubia province, Egypt. Egypt’s transportation minister on Tuesday said he sacked the country’s top railway official, following three train accidents in less than a month that left at least 29 people dead and over 300 injured. (AP Photo/Tarek Wagih, File)

Egypt fires top railway official after deadly train crashes

FILE - In this May 2, 2019 file photo, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, speaks during the opening session of the Arab Economic Forum in Beirut, Lebanon. Madbouly arrived Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Tripoli along with 11 members of his Cabinet and businessmen to discuss ties and trade with the country’s newly-appointed government. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Egypt’s premier visits Libya to discuss trade, other ties

CORRECTS DATE TO APRIL 14 - In this photo provided by Assiut Governorate media office, the authorities work on the collision site where a bus overturned Tuesday, while trying to pass a truck on a highway in southern Egypt on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, near the city of Assiut, Egypt. (Assiut Governorate media office via AP)

21 killed, 3 injured when bus, truck crash in southern Egypt

In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry, right, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov greet each other after a joint news conference following their talks in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 12, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia’s FM in Egypt for talks on ties and Ethiopia’s dam

FILE - In this, Friday, April 9, 2021, file photo, volunteers clean the outer areas of the historic Mohabat Khan Mosque ahead of the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Muslims are facing their second Ramadan in the shadow of the pandemic. Many Muslim majority countries have been hit by an intense new coronavirus wave. While some countries imposed new Ramadan restrictions, concern is high that the month’s rituals could stoke a further surge. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)

Muslims navigate restrictions in the second pandemic Ramadan

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FILE - This April 1, 2016 file photo shows one of Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus displayed at his tomb in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. A nearly decade-long project to better protect and preserve Egypt's legendary tomb of King Tut is nearing completion. The Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles said Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the project has added a filtration system to keep out dust and humidity and a barrier to keep visitors from getting too close to the tomb's wall paintings. The effort was launched in 2009 by the institution, known worldwide for its conservation work, in collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil,File)

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In April, Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s best-known archaeologist, announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old lost city in southern Luxor, complete with mud brick houses, artifacts and tools from pharaonic times.

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CAIRO - Egypt says it will impose new restrictive measures amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the Arab world’s most populous country.

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