Egypt
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- 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...
- 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...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Bubonic Plague Originated In Egypt? (old News)
Associated Content This article, dating to 7th September, popped up today on Google Alerts, but actually dates back to 2004, when it was quite widely reported. The article quotes the source of the piece as a National Geographic article dated to March...
- Palaeontology: The Whales Of Wadi El Hitan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr3.htm"Forty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so...
Egypt
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, but palaeontology: "Fossil fragments from two extinct species discovered recently in Egypt have helped to fill in the story of humanity's shared evolutionary history with apes and monkeys." Teeth, jaws and other facial bones from a Faiyum (SW of Cairo) site dating back 37 million years are helping to fill a gap in the fossil record between 45 million and 35 million years ago. The finds have suggested to the palaeontologists working on the finds, including Dr Erik Seiffert, that anthropoid origins are more complex than previously suspected.
- 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...
- 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...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Bubonic Plague Originated In Egypt? (old News)
Associated Content This article, dating to 7th September, popped up today on Google Alerts, but actually dates back to 2004, when it was quite widely reported. The article quotes the source of the piece as a National Geographic article dated to March...
- Palaeontology: The Whales Of Wadi El Hitan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr3.htm"Forty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so...