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Channel 5 TV put out a two part program on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings entitled Egyptian Tomb Hunting. This is about current archeology going on to find more tombs. One new tomb as yet uncleared,...
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It wasn't the fact that he was presenting the program , just that his slow decend into the
shafts/tombs, if he was really that scared he shouldn't have done it :roll:
We have a local young fellow who is developing his career as a wood carver. He sometimes struggles as 'art' isn't high on anybodies list these days of things to buy so sometimes he struggles and...
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Looks fantastic, it certainly would be a talking point :)
Just read an interesting short article from The Primate Page whereby they discussed the pros and cons of castrating male mountain gorillas. There are about 100 mountain gorillas in zoos in the UK (60...
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Cairo zoo is similar to the zoo in Trinidad - Awful with a capital A. The Trindad zoo is quite small and all the cages (yes cages as there is nothing much natural about any of the habitats) are...
Just watched first episode of the new series on BBC Ancient Invisible Cities which was about Cairo. Very interesting indeed, a lot new to me with great camera work. I look forward to the next episode.
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:lol: :lol: thought it was strange you had not seen it on TV
Just read this and quite interesting as it introduces a new theory as to how North America was first populated. Cut and pasted the article below but this is the link:
Amazing there are still finds like this to be found especially under a major city. There isn't too much info in the article but the visuals really give me the feel this was man made. Most caves (I...
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Nope I couldn't go down into a hole. I don't like confined spaces at all nor do I think I could ever crawl along on my back anywhere either. Not even going to remotely try either!
Seems one of the students at Victoria University has unearthed a 14,000 yr old village on the Island!! Well, an island just off shore the Island but wow they've found lots of items. This news item...
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I hope we get to hear more about this too.
I also think that there are probably way more finds than this one however the area is so very remote with so many difficulties to overcome just to explore...
This fellow is an Historian who offers an accurate assessment of the root of the problem the world faces today and likely well into the future.
Syria has had a civil war for almost 5 YEARS. Why...
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I think part of the problem of today is that the young people of today have never experienced any hardship(s). Life has been pretty good for them and they have nothing in their own experience that...
Just saw that the bones of King Richard III have been found during the reno of a parking lot and have been positively identified as those belonging to King Richard. Just a blip during a clip here...
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The world of science and nature has always fascinated me. Used to be a voracious reader of any articles that came out but nowadays there is just so much info available I don't have a hope of keeping...
An interesting article in the paper today about the Shroud of Turin, for those not familiar with this, it is reputedly the cloth used to cover the body of Jesus after he was crucified.
The actual...
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This post popped up for who knows what reason when I just posted my AAA CHOOO post so I re-read it. VERY interesting thread with diverse views all being posted in respectful polite terms.
The World Heritage Organisation (WHO) has offered the antiquities ministry a grant of $100,000 to help restore the Abu Mina monastery in Alexandria.
The monastery is one of the oldest Christian...
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And don't forget it was only last week that some loony Egyptian guy wanted to get rid of the monks in St Catherines Monastery because they were Greek :urm: The mind boggles :st
There is what should be a very interesting new programme on National Geographic starting on Feb 25th at 9 pm (Sky) entitled Time Scanners and they will use the latest laser scanning technology to...
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Thank's Keefy :up there you go Kiya, job sorted ;)
Newly discovered colossi of Amenhotep III to be restored
Pair of Pharaoh Amenhotep III colossal statues to undergo intensive restoration as a part of Egypt's conservation project
Nevine El-Aref ,...
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WI, I cannot point you to any particular references, but it is just something I have always assumed and believed to be the case, I am sure that at some time over the many years of reading about Egypt...
King Tuts bed, jewelery box, 3 religous boats to arrive in Egyptian museum for restoration
Five artefacts from collection of boy king Tutankhamun are to be transferred to new Grand Egyptian Museum,...
US museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan
Refined technology helps give a clearer picture of life in ancient Egypt, this time on Tjeby, a mummy estimated to be 4,000 years old
AP , Sunday 3...
Cairo's Museum of Egyptian Antiquities boasts 120,000 items - the world's largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities, including 27 mummies of the Royal Cache and the treasures of King Tutankhamen....
A walk among Sudan’s Nubian pyramids
Does Sudan have more pyramids than Egypt? In this series, we explore the splendours of the ancient Kingdom of Kush and the legacy it left behind in the land of...
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That was my view also, the Kushites built more smaller stone versions, rather than mud brick mastabas ;)
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