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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Archaeological News

From Egypt:

A colossal head of Tutankhamun's grandfather in Luxor and the burial chamber of Queen Behenu of the Sixth Dynasty in Saqqara are the latest antiquities discovered in Egypt

This one made me dizzy:

Literary critics, cultural scholars and aficionados of the Mayans, the only fully literate people of the pre-Columbian Americas, have lined up to call the first fully illustrated survey of two millennia of Mayan texts..."stunning," "astounding," "groundbreaking" and "literally breathtaking."
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