News tagged with necropolis
Internet allows virtual Giza tour in 3D
Vicarious travellers and students of history can take a virtual stroll through the vast necropolis build by the ancient Egyptians in the Giza Plateau, thanks to a 3D Internet project launched this week.
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May 11, 2012 |
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TB the culprit in the great mummy whodunnit
Around 2,600 years ago, on the banks of the Nile, a bed-ridden lady of high rank coughed and wheezed as tuberculosis ravaged her body, driving her ruthlessly towards the afterlife.
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts
(AP) -- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants ...
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Sep 07, 2010 |
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Egypt unveils discovery of 4,300-year-old tombs
Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a newly-unearthed double tomb with vivid wall paintings in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, saying it could be the start for uncovering a vast cemetery ...
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...
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May 05, 2009 |
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Bacteria cause old buildings to feel off-color
The assumption that time, weather, and pollution are what cause buildings to decline is only partly true. Bacteria are also responsible for the ageing of buildings and monuments – a process known as biodeterioration, where ...
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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Ancient DNA: reconstruction of the biological history of Aldaieta necropolis
A research team from the Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology & Animal Physiology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Leioa campus of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and led by Ms Concepción ...
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Archaeologists reconstruct life in the Bronze Age through the site of La Motilla
Researchers of the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) of the University of Granada, from the department of Prehistory and Archaeology, have taken an important step to determine how life was in the ...
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Jan 24, 2008 |
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