Egypt discovers ancient tomb

Xinhua ^ | UPDATED: 17:46, August 31, 2005 | some commie drone

[SunkenCiv]

A joint Egyptian-US archaeological team has discovered a 5,000-year-old funerary complex in Upper Egypt, the Egyptian Gazette reported Wednesday. The tomb was found in the Kom al-Ahmer region near Edfu, some 97 km south of the famous ancient city Luxor on the west bank of the Nile... The tomb is believed to have belonged to one of the first rulers of the Greek city of Apollinopolis Magna, the ancient name of Edfu.

[SunkenCiv]

By "one of the first rulers of the Greek city of Apollinopolis Magna", the article means, one of the early Egyptian rulers of one of the nomes or divisions of Egypt, which was later colonized by the Greeks and renamed Apollinopolis Magna.

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[Artemis Webb]

Oh now...this is the good stuff...too cool !

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[Ciexyz]

btt for Ancient Egypt.

[reformed_dem]

D@mn dyslexia....saw the headline and read it as "Egypt Discovers Ancient Bomb" and thought wow! But the real story is cool too. ;^)