excavation

The veteran archaeologist says it shows that Egyptians are equals of foreign Egyptologists when it comes to excavations, preservation of monuments and curating museums.

But the arrival of Egyptian excavation teams inside the Gaza Strip is new.

Archaeologists and volunteers participating in an archaeological excavation or investigation are not eligible for a share in a reward.

It added that any escalation “will hinder the search, excavation, and recovery of the bodies.”

In excavations that began in 2003, he and his colleagues have unearthed more than 100,000 fossils representing about 100 different species—mostly marine, but also land animals washed out to sea.