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The Nirgul Tablet. Each digital replication becomes more complete and higher-resolution as the project collects more photos and videos of the artifacts.

Cyber Archaeologists Rebuild Destroyed Artifacts

5:58pm June 01, 2015

by NPR Staff

Hundreds of ancient artifacts have been damaged or destroyed during violence in the Middle East. Researchers are using the power of crowdsourcing and 3-D imaging to re-create the ancient artifacts.

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A photo from March shows Mohammed Soltan being pushed by his father Salah during a court appearance in Cairo, Egypt. Soltan, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen, was ordered deported to the U.S. after a prolonged hunger strike protesting his prison conditions.

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Egypt Agrees To Deport U.S. Citizen Sentenced For Protests

9:45am May 30, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In April, Mohamed Soltan, 27, was sentenced to life in prison for his ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. He had been on a more than year-long hunger strike.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's third-highest ranking member and a main financier of the banned movement, Khayrat al-Shater (second from left), and other defendants flash the four-finger salute during their trial in Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday. Ousted Pre

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Egyptian Court Hands Morsi A Death Sentence

1:41pm May 16, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The former president who was ousted in 2013 had already been sentenced to 20 years in prison on other charges. The country's highest religious authority will still review the penalty.

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sits in the defendant's cage during his verdict hearing in a retrial for embezzlement on Saturday in the capital Cairo. The Egyptian court sentenced Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison.

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Mubarak And Sons Sentenced (Again) To 3 Years For Corruption

2:31pm May 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

It was the second court to give the same sentence after the earlier conviction was overturned. The latest ruling can be also be appealed, Mubarak's attorney says.

Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi gestures from the defendants' cage during his trial in Cairo on Tuesday. An Egyptian court sentenced the ousted leader to 20 years in prison for abuses of protesters.

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Egypt's Former President Morsi Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

11:18am April 21, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Less than two years after he was removed from office by the military, Mohammed Morsi was sentenced by an Egyptian court for the arrest and torture of protesters.

Egyptian Judge Mohammed Nagi Shehata reads the verdicts against Mohammed Soltan and others charged with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo on Saturday.

Egyptian Court Sentences U.S. Citizen To Life In Prison

12:29pm April 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Mohamed Soltan, 27, was among 36 defendants sentenced to life in prison. Fourteen others, including the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, received death sentences.

Obama Releases Frozen Military Aid To Egypt

3:15pm March 31, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

Delivery of the F-16s, Harpoon missiles and M1A1 Abrams tank kits was suspended in 2013 after a military-backed coup. The White House cited national security as the reason for its decision today.

Pope Francis blesses a baby after celebrating a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

At Palm Sunday Mass, Pope Remembers Germanwings Crash Victims

11:32am March 30, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Francis noted that schoolchildren were aboard the aircraft thought to have been deliberately crashed by its co-pilot. The pontiff also paid tribute to "martyrs" killed for their faith.

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'Important Gaps' Remain In Nuclear Talks With Iran, Kerry Says

1:00pm March 14, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The U.S. secretary of state also said he will use talks Sunday in Switzerland to assure his interlocutors that a letter from GOP senators on the validity of a nuclear deal with Iran carries no weight.

Members of Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas patrol on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip earlier this month.

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Egypt Declares Hamas 'Terrorist' Group

2:00pm February 28, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The organization, an offshoot of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood, controls the Gaza Strip.