"Egypt- the country that has been on the top of my "places to see" list since I started writing a list (since I was in primary school). Over time the list has changed a bit, but Egypt has always held it's top place. "To explore Egypt, I did a 15 day budget tour with 23...
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Who would have thought the world's best preserved mummy is not from Egypt or from the Aztecs BUT from China? Known as Lady Dai, this Western Han Dynasty's noblewomen was buried in style. She was buried in the innermost of four nested lacquer coffins with a vertitable wealth...
Researchers have found a stash of marijuana in a Chinese tomb that is scientifically dated 2,700 years old."OTTAWA - Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote...
" Archaeologist works around a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Borisovo, some 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Thursday, Aug....
"Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority said Wednesday. The two tiny female fetuses, between...
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An amazing pagan tomb built by slaves during the second half of the second century underneath St. Peter's Basilica in Italy has been reopened today after nearly a year of restoration work. Built for the Valeri...
It is such a rare find. A complete mummified dinosaur, skin and all. Staff at North Dakota's state museum are carefully freeing the dinosaur from its 65-million-year-old rock tomb. There are only a few...
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I bet you never saw this coming..but what the hell...like we need another Tomb Raider game...anyway, the next Tomb Raider game will be called Tomb Raider Underworld. Apparently the next game takes place after the events in Tomb Raider Legend...Lara Croft will head down to...
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This restaurant sounds like every goth kid's dream."AHMADABAD, India - In India, death is a part of life, and at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch.
The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves...
"Sun 11 Nov 2007, 13:10 GMT
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will limit the number of visitors to the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun to 400 a day from December 1 and close it from May 2008 for restoration work on the wall paintings, the government said on Sunday.
A statement...
""The tomb receives a lot of visitors and is considered one of the most famous pharaonic tombs in the valley of the kings," Hawass was quoted by AFP as saying.
The true face of ancient Egypt's boy king was...
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"The new display is also expected to increase visits to the tomb from about 350 to 900 tourists a day, generating funds for the protection of Egyptian antiquities....on Sunday morning the remains—settled inside...
"The mummy of King Tutankhamun will soon go on display for the first time, exposing the bare face of the boy king, Egyptian officials have announced.
The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a...
"A group in Dessau, Germany, has received funds and famed architect Rem Koolhaas as an adviser in its quest to build the world's largest structure.Instead of being a monument to only a few individuals, Germany's Great
Pyramid would be a communal tomb open to anyone regardless...
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