I am a viking... my DNA says so.....

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Viking/article-2615568-detail/article.html

This is part of ongoing DNA studies in small towns in England.

Hatshepsut's mummy

Hapshepsut and Thutmosis: A Royal Feud?

Hey guys,

Since we were all contemplating the situations between Hapshepsut and Thutmosis last period (and Ms. O'Neill decided to give me homework), I have located an article on the BBC website written by esteemed egyptologyst Joyce Tyldesley, a professor at Manchester University and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology at Liverpool University. The article details her veiws on the Hapshepsut and Thutmosis and whether he was responsible for the aradication of her name from the world of the living.

Enjoy!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/hatshepsut_01.shtml

Egypt

So I was on the New York Times website and found this article on the discovery of a Egyptian settlement revealing "extensive remains of a settlement - apparently an administrative, economic and military center — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the western desert 110 miles west of Luxor and 300 miles south of Cairo. No such urban center so early in history had ever been found in the forbidding desert."

Have a read of the article and look at the pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/science/07archeo.html?_r=1&hp