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Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and Tourism Khaled El Anany. Photo: Mohammed Fouad/dpa via Getty Images.
But the biggest news in Egyptian archaeology this year was undoubtedly the excavation of over 100 painted sarcophagi in Saqqara, an ancient burial ground south of Cairo.
Stonehenge. Photo courtesy of English Heritage.
Now, thanks to a core sample drilled during a mid-century repair job the 90-year-old who did the job recently returned it to the UK experts have determined that the ancient monument’s outer ring of sarsens, which weigh as much as 30 tons, come from chalk hills of Marlborough Downs, 15 miles away.