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Egyptian Archaeology

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In a computer lab on Birmingham's Southside, UAB anthropology professor Sarah Parcak scours satellite images for hidden Egyptian archaeological sites half a world away.
With the help of the new technology, Parcak and collaborators are hoping to map the sites and explore them before urbanization and development destroy them.

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Ancient illustrations show the Egyptians relied on the Nile to transport their enormous stone obelisks, floating the carved monuments to their destinations on barges.
But how did the big blocks get to the river from the stone quarries, hundreds of yards away?
An international team of researchers may have an answer: a canal.
The first clues emerged several years ago in Aswan, where Egyptian archaeologists were excavating an unfinished obelisk weighing more than 1,100 tons. They dug up part of what seemed to be a canal but had to stop because groundwater was flowing in.

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Tutankhamuns Cook Book is a study of ancient Egyptian food, from earliest times until the Roman period. Although small in size the book is packed with facts, combining the authors knowledge of Egyptology with her passion for good food. It contains rare ancient Egyptian recipes and a research on the food history.

The Author
Jackie Ridley is a museum conservator by profession, who enjoys everything connected with cooking. At present she is Conservation Director of The Tutankhamun Exhibition. Jackies books have been widely published and translated into a number of languages.

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Archaeologists claim to have found a canal that was used to transport stone monuments from quarries to their permanent locations in Egypt.
An international team found the canal at the Aswan obelisk quarry and say it could once have connected to the river Nile.

"Transporting huge granite monoliths by boat to the Nile during the annual flood would appear to be easier than having to transport these blocks overland from the quarry to the Nile" - Dr Richard Parizek, professor of geology and geo-environmental engineering at Penn state university.

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The unfinished Obelisk Quarry in Aswan, Egypt, has a canal that may have connected to the Nile and allowed the large stone monuments to float to their permanent locations, according to an international team of researchers. This canal, however, may be allowing salts from ground water to seep into what has been the best preserved example of obelisk quarrying in Egypt.

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A ancient temple going as far back to the reign of pharaoh Ramses II was found in a mosque in Luxor, Egypt.
The excavations revealed capitals, reliefs and parts of a column, and reliefs in the temples courtyards that were created in about 1250 B.C.
It was discovered when a repair was being done on the mosque where fire damaged some parts of the mosque in June.

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An Egyptian archaeological team will track down the locations of the Nile river's ancient sunken treasures.
Alaa Mahrous, director of the underwater antiquities department in Alexandria, said that the archaeological team headed by Dr Zahi Hawass, director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, has selected the Nile to be the subject of their search, as the river has not been excavated till date.

"The survey will cover the area between the quarries in Aswan and Abydos. Over the centuries this was a significant area - either for the ancient Egyptians or the many rulers of the country who followed. The granite quarries were located in Aswan. The statues and obelisks used to be cut and shaped in the mountains before they were shipped to Luxor and Abydos" - Alaa Mahrous.

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