LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...

The statuette is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... who may have held an ancient percussion instrument, is thus part of "the long Egyptian tradition in which dwarves ...