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Video: The changing face of the Middle East in maps

Maps of War

Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question. . . . See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds.

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- Cairo's Villas Crumble
BBC News Video. Very sad. Cairo's glorious old villas are relics of a time when the city was the Paris of the Middle East - a fashionable destination for Egyptians and Europeans alike. Now many are under threat from modern development. Jon Leyne reports...

- Exhibition: More Re Pioneers To The Past
Media-Newswire A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum chronicles an amazing and sometimes dangerous journey 90 years ago by James Henry Breasted, a famed archaeologist who brought back Egyptian artifacts to Chicago....

- Waging Peace
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nina Hamedani) This article appeared on Google Reader this morning, even though it refers to something that took place in October 2008. Still, better late than never: AT AN OCT. 6 presentation at the Woodrow Wilson...

- Dispersal Of Pigs From The Near East
BBC News This is of no direct relevance to Egypt, but for those interested in the dispersal of agricultural components from the Near East to Europe and Egypt, this may be of some interest.The first domesticated pigs in Europe were introduced from the...

- Mummies And Masks
This is the recent discovery of mummies in middle kingdom tombs but the picture here is particularly nice though the mummy pictured is probably of dynasty 22. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=31444...

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