Egypt has referred a pornographic film made by foreign tourists at the Giza Pyramids to the public prosecutor.

"There is unlawful footage of pornographic scenes in the area of the pyramids made by a foreign female tourist," Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty said in a statement, adding that he had referred the issue to the public prosecutor.

The 10-minute video was posted online last year, local newspaper Al Masry Al Youm said, but the incident only gained wide attention this week when the paper published a story about it with screenshots that blurred out a woman's breasts.

The privately owned paper said the video shows nudity and sex acts by Russian-speaking tourists near the 4,500 year-old Giza pyramids and the Sphinx. Reuters was unable to confirm the contents of the video.

The filming has prompted outrage online in the conservative Muslim country...

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...It's the second time this year indecent acts by tourists at an ancient tourist site have gone online.

In January, three French tourists were arrested by Cambodian authorities for taking nude photos of each other inside the country's sacred Angkor temple complex.