Feature: Egypt faces increased home illegal digging for antiquities amid COVID-19 pandemic - Xinhua

Feature: Egypt faces increased home illegal digging for antiquities amid COVID-19 pandemic
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by Marwa Yahya
QENA, Egypt, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- The illegal digging for antiquities across Egypt, especially in the villages of the southern provinces, has more than doubled since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the North African country, Egyptian officials said, as the crisis of losing jobs amid the pandemic has in large part fostered the myth of easy wealth.
"The Egyptian interior ministry has reported 8,960 cases of illegal digging in several provinces in the south of Egypt from March to the end of November in 2020, against 4,115 in the previous year," Adel Abdel-Azeem, former assistant to the interior minister in the Upper Egypt region, told Xinhua.

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