Egypt
Wake Forest University
See the above page for more.
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- New Book: Pharaonic Inscriptions From The Southeastern Desert Of Egypt
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- Out Of Egypt: Humanity's Ancestors
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Egypt
Khasm El Raqaba fossils under analysis
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University anthropologist Ellen Miller is among the scientists deciphering the secrets of a trove of small mammal fossils discovered in a quarry in Egypt. The 20-million-year-old bones and teeth found in the Egyptian desert may shed light on the origins of present-day African wildlife.
The story is the subject of a segment of the award-winning television series “Wild Chronicles,” currently airing on public television stations (Episode 412—Looking Back; check listings for local air dates). “Wild Chronicles” is produced by National Geographic Television and presented by WLIW21 in association with WNET.ORG.
Miller is working with University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell, William Sanders, and Ahmed El-Barkooky of Cairo University. To view the video, visit the University of Michigan Web site.
After Gingerich found the fossil site in the area of Khasm El Raqaba, Miller was asked to study some of the fossils he found there. She is an expert on the evolution of African mammals and identified a few rodent jaws, bat jaws and some teeth.
With funding from the National Geographic Society, Miller, Gunnell, Sanders and El-Barkooky visited the site last December to collect more fossils.
See the above page for more.
- Largest Whale Skeleton Found At Siwa Oasis
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. It looks as though these remains date to the same period (and were therefore probably part of the same coastline) as the Faiyum remains of whale, shark and mangrove in the Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales). The Environment...
- Valley Of The Wales (wadi Al Hitan)
National Geographic Following on from Saturday's article about whale fossils from the Faiyum being held up at Egyptian customs, thanks very much to Helen Williams-Alden for letting me know about this recent set of lovely photographs on the National...
- Whale Fossil Stuck In Egypt Customs Wrangle
BBC News With photos Its name in Arabic is Wadi Hitan but it is known as the Valley of the Whales. For years archaeologists have been unearthing a remarkable collection of whale fossils, all the more surprising because the area is now inland desert in...
- New Book: Pharaonic Inscriptions From The Southeastern Desert Of Egypt
Eisenbrauns (temporary) Eisenbrauns (permanent) Pharaonic Inscriptions from the Southeastern Desert of Egypt by Russell D. Rothe, William K. Miller, and George (Rip) Rapp Forthcoming April 2008 The University of Minnesota Eastern Desert Expedition...
- Out Of Egypt: Humanity's Ancestors
http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/ As it's a slow news day, I'm sneaking in this report from Oxford Today's Science Findings page (Hilary Issue 2006), originally reported in the academic journal Science. Ths isn't Egyptology, or even archaeology,...