5200 B.C. Is New Date for Farms in Egypt
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A new discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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An American excavation mission has unearthed eight granaries that are relics from agricultural life in the Neolithic era, the Egyptian culture minister said in a statement Tuesday.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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Egypt is among the earliest Arab and African countries that gave special attention to the environment issue and enacted environmental laws, said Minister of State for Environment Affairs Maged George on Sunday.
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By TIM PAYNE  ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - A land-clearing project in southern Antigua is threatening a unique ancient settlement where Arawak Indians lived from roughly 500 B.C. until the arrival of Christopher Columbus, an archaeologist said Monday.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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Celebrations are held in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia ushers in a new Millennium under the ancient Coptic calendar.
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YOU'D be forgiven for mistaking today's picture for a country scene but in reality it was taken at Egypt Farm in Tollcross back in 1949.  The farm is said to have been given its name by a soldier who served in Egypt and named his farm after it when he returned to Scotland.
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Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most famous female ruler.
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.
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Archaeologists find evidence that Romans settled at a 5,000-year-old landmark man-made hill.
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The use of evergreens as a symbol and celebration of life during Winter Solstice celebrations started in ancient Roman and Egyptian times.
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A Japanese archeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4,000 years.
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A mud brick tomb dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered near Egypt's most ancient pyramid in the Saqqara complex south of Cairo, antiquities official announced Monday.
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they had found evidence that humans lived in North America at least 50,000 years ago, far earlier than has been thought.