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Did Tutankhamen Have Children?

There’s something not many knew about King Tut: he was buried with two female fetuses which, since their discovery in Tutankhamen’s tomb back in 1922 have been stored at the Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine.
Robert Connolly from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology has recently declared for Discovery News:
“I studied [...]

19Aug2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued
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The Heart Of Europe - Roma Secunda

There are many places in this world so deeply rooted in history and culture, but ironically the average traveler may seldom take note of this in these fast times. This one little town in Germany we know of traces its history back to 2000 B.C. when the Assyrians established a colony there on the Moselle [...]

16Jun2008 | Phil | 2 comments | Continued
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Stonehenge Unravelled - Burial Of The Mighty

Stonehenge has been a place of mystery and interest for millennium. Recently archaeologists at the University of Sheffield studied radio carbon dated human cremation remains indicating that the monument was used as a cemetery around 3000 B.C. The archaeological team of Professor Mike Parker-Pearson and Professor Andrew Chamberlain believe that the cremation burials studied [...]

31May2008 | Mihaela Lica | 0 comments | Continued