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      Remains of World's Oldest Ships Found in Egypt

      Posted by Billbar from Live Science

      Excavations at an ancient Egyptian shipyard have unearthed remains of the world's oldest seafaring ships. The 4,000-year-old timbers were found alongside equally ancient cargo boxes, anchors, coils of rope and other naval materials just as old, at what archaeologists are calling a kind of ancient military administration site.

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      Huge Crater Found in Egypt

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      The crater, likely carved by a space rock that was roughly 0.75 miles in diameter, is about 19 miles wide, more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile in diameter.

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    Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs

    Would make a great Indiana Jones movie, “The Curse of the Golden Spitbowl”

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    12:32 pm 10/23/06
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