Desert yields rare Pharaonic temple

Cairo - Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mud-brick temple more than 2,000 years old at a remote desert oasis.

Cairo - Archaeologists have uncovered a rare mud-brick temple more than 2,000 years old at a remote desert oasis.

An Egyptian antiquities official, Mr Hassan Saadallah said an Egyptian-French archaeological team found the half-buried Pharaonic temple at the Kharga oasis, 600 km south-west of Cairo on the edge of the Sahara desert.

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