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Zahi Hawass denies forbidding tourists from picturing historic sites

By Ben Morales-Correa

Comments have been circulating that Egyptian authorities have forbidden the use of any visual recording device (cameras, video cameras, cellphones, etc.) at the entire Valley of the Kings, both outside and inside the tombs. According to a statement by the Egyptian Culture Ministry, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)... »