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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said on Sunday.

The Muslim Broterhood has cut a swath of violence and destruction across Egpyt:

....Salafi cleric Ahmad Fouad Ashoush issued a fatwa on Islamic websites last weekend calling for American and European Muslims to murder those involved with the movie. His religious ruling was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group on Monday. Ashoush wrote, “Those bastards who did this film are belligerent disbelievers. I issue a fatwa and call on the Muslim youth in America and Europe to do this duty, which is to kill the director, the producer and the actors and everyone who helped and promoted the film. “So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy...

...TURKEY IS a cautionary tale for the West, which is now faced with the prospect of AKP-like regimes from Egypt to Tunisia to Jordan to the Persian Gulf. And the real issue that Western leaders must address is how things in Turkey were permitted to deteriorate to the point they have without any US or European official lifting a finger to stem the Islamist tide? The answer, it would seem, is a combination of professional laziness and cultural weakness. This mix of factors is also on display in the US’s behavior toward the revolutionary forces active throughout much of the...

Ancient Egypt's fantastic and weird history By Terry Deary Last Updated: 2:21am GMT 17/11/2007 Pyramids and Tombs • Pyramids were a big signal to tell grave robbers where the pharaoh's treasure was hidden. That's why, by Tutankhamun's time, pharaohs were buried underground. Napoleon's engineers said the stones of the Great Pyramid would build a wall around France • Some people believe the young Tutankhamun was murdered by his uncle, Ay, who went on to take the throne. But in 2005 the mummy was given an X-ray, and they found he had a broken leg, which probably led to his death....

Egyptian activists rally against the government By Betsy Hiel TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 7, 2006 CAIRO -- A day after Egypt's parliament extended a widely-reviled emergency law, several dozen political activists tried to protest against the government. The protest lasted a minute. Hundreds of truncheon-swinging riot police, plainclothes officers and swarms of street thugs attacked the demonstrators outside the Nasr Party headquarters downtown, pushing them inside the building or chasing them down the street.

Read this article then think, the U.S gives Egypt 3 billion a year. Egypt votes against the U.S 74 percent of the time at the U.N. The 2 terrorist pilots who flew the planes in the World Trade Center, was the Egyptian terrorist Mohammed Atta and his cousin Marwan Al shehhi