The city slipped into a recession ... Tommasino he was an artist himself and made sculptures inspired by ancient Egyptian art. “I asked him to show me something,” Mr. Tommasino said.

artifacts and a bust that they say depicts the famous queen at the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris Magna. But others are not so sure. Kathleen Martinez, the lead archaeologist of the excavation ...

The statuette is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City ... who may have held an ancient percussion instrument, is thus part of "the long Egyptian tradition in which ...