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Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: an unknown pharaoh's tomb, dating back 3,600 years.
The excavation, which was conducted near the Egyptian city of Abydos this winter, was announced by the Penn Museum in Philadelphia last week. The pharaoh's tomb was found 23 feet underground and featured a decorated entryway and mudbrick vaults.
Pictures show a team of international archaeologists excavating the deep tomb in the Egyptian desert.
Excavation leader Dr. Josef Wegner, an egyptology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke with Fox News Digital about the discovery, which dates back to the Second Intermediate Period.
ANCIENT TOMB TIED TO ROMAN GLADIATOR DISCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
“Surprisingly, we came upon a royal tomb that we had no idea existed,” Wegner said. “Excitingly, it's adding new evidence on what seems to be the early development of a group of fascinating kings that we call the Abydos dynasty. They are kind of a..

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an archaeologist says “many surprises” from the site are in the works.
Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and grapevines. The specimens date back roughly 2,000 years.
The discovery echoes the New Testament verse John 19:41, “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.”
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Francesca Stasolla, an archaeology professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, confirmed the findings with Fox News Digital on Wednesday. She said the proof of the ancient garden came in the form of seeds and pollen.
Calvary, the site where the church stan..

The British National Archives has announced a new exhibit that may catch the attention of James Bond fans.
The “MI5: Official Secrets” exhibit will be pulling down the curtain on the world of espionage in London.
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“Explore the ever-changing world of espionage and security threats through original case files, photographs and papers, alongside the real equipment used by spies and spy-catchers over MI5’s 115-year history,” reads the exhibit’s website.
Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, said at an event celebrating the exhibit’s launch that the agency wants to be more transparent, Reuters reported.
He added that espionage work is about “ordinary human beings together doing extraordinary things.”
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Among the many items, there will be a piece of e..

A McDonald's in Franklin, Tennessee, attracted viral attention last month after a customer called out the children's play area and posted a photo on X.
The photo showed a sitting area in the corner of the restaurant, with two screens embedded in the wall.
X user @NancyAFrench posted an image of the PlayPlace, writing, “This is so heartbreaking. I’m at a new McDonald's in Franklin, TN, and look at their 'play place' for children. Two screens/two chairs.”
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A McDonald’s spokesperson told Fox News Digital that while this restaurant “has a few interactive features for younger guests, it does not represent the full PlayPlace design and experience.”
Gary He, author of “McAtlas,” a visual social anthropology book about McDonald's, has traveled to McDonald’s locations in over 55 countries across six continents.
“[McDonald’s restaurants] come in all sh..

A Houston-area woman is calling out the Department of Homeland Security and airline CEOs over an issue she said she faces while going through airport security.
Cretora Biggerstaff, 106, reportedly flies twice a year from Texas to Gainesville, Florida, with her daughter.
Biggerstaff claims airport personnel repeatedly ask her to prove her age, she said in an interview with FOX 26 Houston.
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“People will say to me, ‘How do you feel?’ I say, 'How should I feel? I feel OK. I don't feel 106,'” she said.
Biggerstaff said she is often asked to show her Texas ID to airport officials and her ID does have the star stamped on it, which indicates it meets security standards.
“If I could get the airlines to realize I'm not some stupid old lady, and that's what they think I am — that I don't know if I'm coming or going,” said Biggerstaff.
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On Wednesday evening, the White House had an unexpected visitor as a young boy slipped through the fence in Washington, D.C.
Secret Service officers witnessed the toddler on the North Lawn before handing him to another officer.
Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi addressed the incident in a statement shared on X.
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“Just after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers observed a child slip through the White House north fence,” said the post.
“Officers quickly reunited the child with their parents without incident,” Guglielmi added.
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The Uniformed Division officers are assigned to the White House Branch, according to the Secret Service website.
The officers provide “protection and law enforcement functions for the White House, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, New Execu..

With the rise of flight passengers complaining about seat squatters, one traveler got creative by switching his seat without creating bad blood.
In the “r/delta” forum on Reddit, a person who said he or she was on a nonstop flight from New York to Austin captioned a post, “Someone paid me to swap my aisle seat for a middle.”
“While boarding, two guys came up to my row and asked if anyone in an aisle or window would swap so they could sit together; they both had the middle seats on opposite sides of the row and they offered $80,” the post said.
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The Reddit user said other passengers shot down the offer, and one of the men ended up sitting next to the Reddit user.
“The guy next to me asked if I would swap for $150. I thought about it and said yes. We swapped and his buddy venmo'd me before take off. Boom, easiest $150 I've ever made,” the user wrote.
When a flight attendant came by with a drin..

The Byzantine Museum in Nicosia, Cyprus, has opened a new exhibit spotlighting early Christian relics with a distinct history.
Many of the artifacts were once stolen by looters and trafficked on the black market after a Turkish invasion in 1974, Reuters reported.
Mosaics, icons and wall frescoes were recovered after being stolen from churches north of the island.
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The museum is still searching for many of the stolen items, according to the museum’s director, Ioannis Eliades, Ph.D., Reuters reported.
“The looting, the destruction was on a great scale… We have calculated that more than 20,000 icons have been stolen and disappeared from the churches,” said Eliades.
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Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, but Greek-Turkish Cypriot tensions led to violence, with Turkey intervening in 1974 after a Greek-backed coup and seizing over a third of th..

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a “mysterious pyramid-shaped structure” dating back 2,200 years.
The evacuation was a joint mission between the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Ministry of Heritage excavation.
The structure is tied to when the Ptolemies and Seleucids ruled Israel, according to a joint press release.
ANCIENT SKETCHES FROM 200,000 YEARS AGO FOUND INSIDE CAVE
“What we have here is one of the richest and most intriguing archaeological excavations ever found in the Judean Desert,” said IAA excavation directors Matan Toledano, Dr. Eitan Klein and Amir Ganor.
The structure is made of hand-hewn stones with each stone weighing hundreds of pounds.
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“We still do not know for certain what the building’s purpose was,” said the evacuation directors.
The structure is believed to have been a guard tower, a grave marker or even possibly an ancient monument.
“It ..

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom.
The discovery was announced by Durham University on Tuesday. In an announcement, the university described the findings as being “one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the UK.”
The Iron Age began at around 1200 B.C. and ended in 550 B.C., though the university says the objects date back around 2,000 years.
Dubbed the Melonsby Hoard, the cache of objects were found by a metal detectorist named Peter Heads in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in 2021. Although the hoard was excavated by Durham University archaeologists the year after, the contents were unknown until this week.
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The cache includes over 800 objects, including 28 iron tires, which were likely used for wagons or chariots during the Roman rule of Britain.
“A ca..