Egypt
The Saqqara Mummy In Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4510433.stm
http://www.egyptdailynews.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/04/wmummy04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/04/ixworld.html
Photographs of the new 30th Dynasty Mummy from Saqqara. It's a beauty. On the Telegraph link, you will need to click on the "Pics" link at the top of the page, underneath the title, to see the show of images.
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Saqqara 2005 Dig Diary
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/saqqara/homepage.htm The Leiden Excavations, a joint expedition working in the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, are ongoing and the 2005 Dig Diary is online at the above URL. You will need to navigate from the home page...
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Facial Reconstruction Of Tutankhamun
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the SupremeCouncil of Antiquities (SCA), announced yesterday theresults of three independent attempts to reconstructthe face of Egypt's most famous King, Tutankhamun. Dr...
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Recent Cairo Attacks - Impacts On Tourism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/02/wegypt02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/02/ixworld.html "Seven tourists were reported to be injured in Saturday's incidents, which came less than a month after a bomb near Cairo's well-visited...
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Ghost Toddler
Wonderful use of science to create art of an ancient mummy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/earth/2008/05/23/scighost123.xml...
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Son Of The Great
I thought the show was very interesting though admittedly 90% might just as well be 10% as the mummies obvious high status did not necessarily mean it was the son of Ramses II. I thought the overbite was taken a little to much as evidence for the mummies...
Egypt