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Egypt bans Dutch archaeology team from Saqqara due to museum’s ‘Afrocentric’ exhibition
A team of archaeologists from a Dutch museum has been banned from carrying out excavations in Egypt’s rich Saqqara necropolis, after the museum mounted an exhibition that drew condemnation from Egyptian authorities. After the opening of “Kemet: Egypt in Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk,” the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden received an email from the head of foreign missions of the Egyptian Antiquities Service saying that the museum is “falsifying history” with its “Afrocentric” approach, Dutch newspaper NRC reported on Monday. Archaeologists from the museum have worked at Saqqara for decades. Leiden Turin Expedition to Saqqara/National Museum of Antiquities Wim Weijland, the

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