An incomplete statue depicts Ramses with a sun god.
Discovery of a large tomb complex by Kent Weeks.
Excavated in Egypt in the early 1900s, these papyri have restored to us lost Greek texts. Oxford University provides an online exhibition, conference proceedings, photographs and published volumes.
Brief news article from Reuters news service reports in 2001 that sinking water levels revealed a symbolic sarcophagus of the god Osiris.
From NASA, the site, known as Nabta, is between 6,000 and 6,500 years old, or about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge.
From the International Herald Tribune, men have retreated to the desert for centuries in search of God, drawn by the quiet and the isolation.
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