Monday, December 29, 2008

Pair of Tombs Discovered in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists say they have discovered a pair of 4,300-year-old tombs that indicate a burial site south of Cairo is bigger than expected..........

BBC News

Thursday, December 25, 2008

King Tut's Father Confirmed

An inscribed limestone block might have solved one of history's
greatest mysteries -- who fathered the boy pharaoh King Tut. "We can
now say that Tutankhamun was the child of Akhenaten," Zahi Hawass,
chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News..........

Discovery News

Rare first century coin found in Temple Mount soil

A rare half shekel coin, first minted in 66 or 67 C.E., was
discovered by 14 year-old Omri Ya'ari as volunteers sifted through
mounds of dirt from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The coin is the
first one found to originate from the Temple Mount. The half shekel
coin was first minted during the Great Revolt against the Romans..........

Haaretz