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France Prepares to Commemorate D-Day’s 80th Anniversary 

This photograph taken on April 12, 2024 shows cutting board silhouettes of British soldiers installed as part of the "Standing with Giants" installation at the World War II British Normandy Memorial ahead of the upcoming D-Day commemorations, in the village of Ver-sur-Mer which overlooks the Gold Beach in northwestern France. (AFP)
This photograph taken on April 12, 2024 shows cutting board silhouettes of British soldiers installed as part of the "Standing with Giants" installation at the World War II British Normandy Memorial ahead of the upcoming D-Day commemorations, in the village of Ver-sur-Mer which overlooks the Gold Beach in northwestern France. (AFP)
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France Prepares to Commemorate D-Day’s 80th Anniversary 

This photograph taken on April 12, 2024 shows cutting board silhouettes of British soldiers installed as part of the "Standing with Giants" installation at the World War II British Normandy Memorial ahead of the upcoming D-Day commemorations, in the village of Ver-sur-Mer which overlooks the Gold Beach in northwestern France. (AFP)
This photograph taken on April 12, 2024 shows cutting board silhouettes of British soldiers installed as part of the "Standing with Giants" installation at the World War II British Normandy Memorial ahead of the upcoming D-Day commemorations, in the village of Ver-sur-Mer which overlooks the Gold Beach in northwestern France. (AFP)

Eighty years on, Normandy's beaches and fields still bear the scars of violence that erupted during World War Two on D-Day, history's largest amphibious invasion on June 6, 1944, drone footage shows.

Commemorations in June will mark the day when more than 150,000 allied soldiers invaded France to drive out Hitler's forces.

At the Normandy American Cemetery, perched above Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer, dotted with white cross headstones and US flags, 9,386 soldiers are buried.

Along the coast lie the remains of the artillery batteries of Longues-sur-Mer, from which the forces of Nazi Germany shelled invading forces on Omaha Beach.

Allied troops built the Winston Harbour nearby, in Arromanches-les-Bains, to bring in the supplies needed to force the Germans out of France, with its concrete caissons still visible to this day.

The D-Day beaches, spread over 120 km (75 miles) of the Normandy coastline, attract large numbers of tourists each year.

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Egypt Recovers 3 Ancient Artifacts Found in the Netherlands

This picture shows a partial view of Cairo on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
This picture shows a partial view of Cairo on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
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Egypt Recovers 3 Ancient Artifacts Found in the Netherlands

This picture shows a partial view of Cairo on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
This picture shows a partial view of Cairo on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt recovered three ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of the country and found in the Netherlands, where two of the items were for sale in an antiques shop, Egyptian officials said Tuesday.
The items retrieved include a mummified head from the Hellenistic period, a ceramic funerary figurine dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom era (664-332 B.C.), and part of a wooden tomb bearing an inscription of the goddess Isis from 663-504 B.C., the Egyptian embassy in The Hague said in a statement. The head was found in good condition, showing remnants of teeth and hair, The Associated Press reported.
Dutch police and the cultural heritage inspection unit retrieved the figurines and parts of the tomb after determining that they were smuggled out of Egypt. A Dutch individual handed over the mummified head, which he had inherited from a family member, to local authorities.
The three artifacts are believed to have been stolen and smuggled after they were discovered through illegal excavation, according to Egyptian authorities. No details were provided about when those items were believed to have been unearthed and smuggled.
Repatriation from the Netherlands is part of Egypt’s wider push to stop trafficking of stolen antiquities. More than 30,000 artifacts have been recovered since 2014.
Last year, an ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after US authorities determined it was smuggled years ago.