Outwith: As Tourists Dig the Past, Time Stands Still for Egyptians

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'CAN you believe our government can do nothing for us, and this thing that was built thousands of years ago is still helping me feed my family?" Ahmed Sayed Baghali, 49, said as he sat in a plastic chair selling postcards to tourists outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. "Who would buy my things if they were not about the pharaohs? People come here from very far to see the pyramids, not to see Cairo."

Deep below the Egyptian desert, archaeologists have found evidence of yet another pyramid, this one constructed 4,300 years ago to store the remains of a pharaoh's mother. That makes 138 pyramids discovered here so far, and officials say they expect to find more.

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Outwith: As Tourists Dig the Past, Time Stands Still for Egyptians

Tourists will, no doubt, care. Egyptians probably will not - unless they work in tourism.

The pyramids are proof of Egypt's endurance and what distinguishes it from mode...

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