Researchers also find Roman-era stone slab with demotic and hieroglyphic inscriptions; shrine includes a two-layer platform and mud-brick basin from Byzantine era

Flamboyant ex-MP Alaa Hassanein suspected of leading group that stole tablets, statues, Classical-era coins, black basalt plates; allegations carry life sentence

Find includes 20 limestone sarcophagi etched with hieroglyphs, hundreds of amulets and 10,000 blue funerary statues dating to 664-399 BCE

Egypt's National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation will sue Christie's, says auction house didn't prove ownership of sculpture it sold for $5.9 million

Ownership of art piece can apparently only be traced back to 1970s; Cairo wants representation of infamous pharaoh's returned to its country of origin

Necropolis filled with ornate paintings discovered south of Cairo thought to have belonged to a Fifth Dynasty nobleman