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Monday, March 17, 2014
News for Ancient Egypt
News for the Ancient World March 17,2014 Two stories related to ancient Egypt: Stolen Egyptian artifacts were seized by Homeland Security in New York on March 16, according to Ahramonline. The artifacts are now on their way back to Egypt. The artifacts are from different periods and include: a mummy mask, part of a painted wooden sarcophagus, and Middle Kingdom wooden boats.
Egyptian Wooden Boat
Sarcophagus
The discovery of the skeletons of six cats (four of them kittens) in an Egyptian cemetery makes scientists believe that cats may have been domesticated 2,000 years earlier than first thought--according an article from Live Science.
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