{"id":40364,"date":"2019-08-04T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40364"},"modified":"2019-08-04T22:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:23:32","slug":"turkey-warns-of-cross-border-operation-into-eastern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40364","title":{"rendered":"Turkey warns of cross-border operation into eastern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"59\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egypt displayed on Sunday the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king\u2019s tomb was discovered in 1922.<br \/>The restoration process began in mid-July after the three-tiered coffin was transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, southern Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/08\/04\/1695236-1292381355.jpg\" width=\"1000\"><br \/>\u201cWe are showing you a unique historical artefact, not just for Egypt but for the world,\u201d Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany told a press conference at the new museum, which overlooks the famed Giza Pyramids.<br \/>The golden coffin of the boy king will be displayed along with other Tutankhamun artefacts toward the end of next year when Egypt\u2019s new mega-museum is opened to the public.<br \/>The restoration is expected to take around eight months.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/08\/04\/1695246-1775776198.jpg\" width=\"1000\"><br \/>The outer gilded wood coffin stands at 2.23 meters (7.3 feet) and is decorated with a depiction of the boy king holding the pharaonic symbols the flail and crook, according to the ministry.<br \/>In the last century, the coffin has \u201cdeveloped cracks in its gilded layers of plaster, especially those of the lid and base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/08\/04\/1695271-335281788.jpg\"><br \/>Famed British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the 18th dynasty king in Luxor in 1922.<br \/>Sunday\u2019s announcement comes after the controversy the Pharoah courted in early July when a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artefact was sold in London for $6 million.<br \/>Furious Egyptian officials condemned the sale and asked the international police agency Interpol to trace the artefact which it deems looted.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/08\/04\/1695291-65683283.jpg\" width=\"1000\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt displayed on Sunday the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king\u2019s tomb was discovered in 1922.The restoration process began in mid-July after the three-tiered coffin was transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, southern Egypt. \u201cWe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}