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RE: Egyptian Archaeology

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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis containing dozens of beautifully preserved mummies dating back as far as 4,000 years.
Excavations sponsored by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities revealed 53 tombs cut into rock south east of the Illahun pyramids in the oasis of Fayoum.

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Using CT imaging to study a priceless bust of Nefertiti, researchers have uncovered a delicately carved face in the limestone inner core and gained new insights into methods used to create the ancient masterpiece and information pertinent to its conservation, according to a study published in the April issue of Radiology .

"We acquired a lot of information on how the bust was manufactured more than 3,300 years ago by the royal sculptor. We learned that the sculpture has two slightly different faces, and we derived from interpretation of the CT images how to prevent damage of this extremely precious art object" - study's lead author Alexander Huppertz, M.D., director of the Imaging Science Institute in Berlin, Germany.

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A secret document has emerged claiming that German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt may have misled Egyptian officials into letting him take the world-famous bust of Nefertiti to Germany in 1913.
The Egyptian Museum in Berlin is concerned that it may face fresh demands from Egypt that it return the world-famous bust of Queen Nefertiti following the emergence of new information on how Germany got the priceless ancient artwork.

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French archaeologists in northern Sudan say they've unearthed a 5,500 year-old Stone Age tomb which they believe confirms the location of Africa's "oldest human sacrifice".
In a graveyard in Al-Kadada, north of Khartoum, the archaeologists have dug up the tomb of a man and a woman facing each other in a ditch, with bodies of two women, two goats and a dog buried nearby.

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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pier used by ancient Egyptians to access the Karnak temple complex during the dry season in the southern city of Luxor, the Egyptian government said on Monday.
The discovery was further evidence of the importance the complex held in the religious life of ancient Egypt, as other temples had a single dock, according to archaeologist Mansour Boraik, who led the expedition that uncovered the dock.

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Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced that a new archaeological site dating some 4,000 years has been discovered northeast of the capital, Cairo. According to Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, the site dates back to the Middle Kingdom and was unearthed near the Ein el Sokhna resort, some 120 kilometres northeast of Cairo.
The discovery was made by a joint Egyptian-French archaeological mission, Hawass said.

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An Egyptian expert says an artefact has finally identified the father of famed King Tutankhamun as a previous pharaoh, King Akhenaten.
Zahi Hawass, head of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the artefact also suggests that Tutankhamun married his half sister, Ankhesenpaaton.

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Third language on the Rosetta Stone is Macedonian
207 years ago in Egypt a stone tablet was found with three scripts, 2,200 years old: with Egyptian hieroglyphs; with an unknown script in the centre, called 'Demotic'; and with the Ancient Koine script.
The stone was named Rosetta Stone, by the small Egyptian town Rosetta (el-Rashid). The Ancient Koine text was translated soon after the discovery, and on this basis in the year 1822 the French Orientalist Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs.
According to Tome Boevski and Aristotel Tentov (MANU), the middle text is in the Macedonian language, with amazing similarity to identity of certain words with the present Macedonian dialects, by the 167 words presented.

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