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Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass gives an interview with AFP at his office in Cairo on May 22, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

A view of the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

A view of the entrance of the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

French Anita Quiles, a researcher in the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo, stands near local staff at a dating laboratory inside the institut on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

A view of the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

French Anita Quiles, a researcher in the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo, stands near local staff at a dating laboratory inside the institut on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass gives an interview with AFP at his office in Cairo on May 22, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

French Anita Quiles, a researcher in the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo, stands inside a dating laboratory during an interview on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

A view of the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo on May 14, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP