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French Experts Restore Three Sudanese Relics

Agence France-Presse

   KHARTOUM - A team of French diggers has restored three Sudanese
   artifacts, including a 3,500-year-old wall relief, and it handed them
   to the African country's national museum Thursday, a French
   archaeologist said.
   The three artifacts were discovered at separate archaeological sites in
   recent years in Sudan and were restored by a French team of experts.
   The items are a wall painting of an ancientKandakaNubian queen,
   aMeroitestela and a wall relief inscription believed to be almost 3,500
   years old.

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