Archive for the ‘egypt’ Category

Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt’s most powerful female ruler.

Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the unidentified mummy.

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Egypt’s Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years Old

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

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Rock face drawings and etchings recently rediscovered in southern Egypt are similar in age and style to the iconic Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain, archaeologists say.

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