Andrei Dumitrescu: I am unable to escape the grim that Fallout: New Vegas has on me and so I will keep playing my two characters for the weekend, squeezing as much gaming in as possible around household chores and my rapidly diminishing social life.Last week I was talking about the choice of what kind of character I ... |
29 October 2010
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A team of Egyptian archaeologists has recently discovered a new burial chamber in an area located near a known pyramid, and the experts say that this could be the first tomb of an unknown necropolis. The word means “city of the dead” in Greek, and several such sites have been discovered in the country, in... |
19 October 2010
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The tombs of the pharaohs that were buried at Saqqara, an Egyptian archaeological site that never seizes to amaze archaeologists, has recently revealed other surprises, when a team of Japanese investigators has found four wooden sarcophagi, which date back more than 3,300 years, Egyptian authorities have announced on... |
26 February 2009
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The Saqqara necropolis, situated south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo, dates back to the 6th Dynasty, which reigned over the areas some 4,300 years ago. A vast stretch of land was covered with temples, tombs and pyramids, in what would today look like an over-sized and gigantic graveyard. Over the years, it has yie... |
10 February 2009
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A new pair of Pharaonic tombs that were recently dug up at the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo prove that the ancient burial grounds are far more widespread than previously thought. The two new tombs actually belonged to high-ranking officials in the old Egyptian dynasties. The nation's top archaeologist says that... |
23 December 2008
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Ancient Peruvians may have been a sophisticated society, possessing advanced astronomical knowledge, but like many pre-Columbian societies, such as Maya and Aztec, their power was based on the tactic of scaring their neighbors, by using cruel rites. New archaeological finds suggest that aristocrats dismembered their ... |
29 March 2007
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