Egypt
Updated: Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=9&u=/ap/20050519/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_treasures
"Archaeologists digging in a 5,000-year-old site in southern Egypt have unearthed 200 rough ceramic beer and wine jars and a second mud-brick mortuary enclosure of King Hur-Aha the founder of the First Dynasty, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday. A joint American excavation mission from Yale University, Institute of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania University Museum and New York Universities found the treasure Wednesday at Shunet El-Zebib, north of Abydos in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag". This is the entire Yahoo news item.
Update: For more details see longer articles at:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4576839
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2005/05/19/pf-1047249.html
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Online: The Wine Jars Speak: A Text Study
Uppsala Universitet Wahlberg, Eva-Lena (Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History) Title: The Wine Jars Speak: A text study The Wine Jars Speak: A text...
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White Wine With Tutankhamun
http://tinyurl.com/cjzvf (IOL) "King Tutankhamen, the teenage king of ancient Egypt, headed into the afterlife with the help of a rather decent white wine, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.University of Barcelona researchers...
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Valley Of The Kings Discovery
http://tinyurl.com/ar5ef (Monsters and Critics) "An American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. An excavation team from...
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Ct Scan Carried Out On The Remains Of Tutankhamun
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20050105/ap_on_sc/scanning_tut_s_tomb_2
Apart from the sensationalist lead paragraph, this is not a bad article. It starts off "A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's...
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More On The Bahariya Mummies
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=592527
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041213/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummies_3
As well as other mummies dating to the late periods in Egypt, the tomb of a Governor of the oasis Bahariya...
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