ARCHAEOLOGY

This picture taken on February 2, 2019 shows newly-discovered mummies wrapped in linen found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era (323-30 BC) at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt's southern Minya province, about 340 kilometres south of the capital Cairo. - Egypt's Antiquities Minister said on February 2 that a joint mission from the ministry and Minya University's Archaeological Studies Research Centre found upon a collection of Ptolemaic burial chambers engraved in rock and filled with a large number of mummies of different sizes and genders. The minister added that the newly discovered tombs may be a familial grave for a family from the elite middle class. (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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WORLD NEWS
Archaeologists Discover 40 Mummies In Egyptian Burial Chambers
By Nina Golgowski
The mummies, believed to have belonged to an upper-middle-class family, were found in “good conservation condition.”
Statues are seen inside inside the newly-discovered tomb of 'Wahtye', which dates from the rule of King Neferirkare Kakai, at the Saqqara area near its necropolis, in Giza, Egypt, December 15, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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WORLD NEWS
Ancient 'One Of A Kind' Tomb Unveiled In Egypt: PHOTOS
By Patrick Werr, Reuters
The 4,400-year-old tomb is adorned with hieroglyphs and statues of pharaohs.
Natural History Museum
SCIENCE
Oldest-Known Briton 'Cheddar Man’ Wasn’t Fair-Skinned After All
By Dominique Mosbergen
DNA analysis of Britain's oldest complete skeleton reveals the first modern Britons had "dark to black skin" and dark hair.
A close-up view of the teeth accompanying the left maxilla of human remains from Misliya Cave in Israel, the oldest remains of our species Homo sapiens found outside Africa, is provided in this photo released on January 25, 2018. Courtesy Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES - RC19A86CC3B0
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U.S. NEWS
Researchers Discover Fossilized Jawbone That May Alter Homo Sapiens' Timeline
By Will Dunham, Reuters
Humans may have migrated out of Africa much earlier than scientists previously believed.
LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 20: Princess Michael of Kent attends a Christmas lunch for the extended Royal Family at Buckingham Palace on December 20, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
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WORLD NEWS
British Royal Apologizes After Wearing Offensive Jewelry In Front Of Meghan Markle
By Carla Herreria
Princess Michael of Kent wore jewelry featuring a black woman during a Christmas lunch with the Royal Family.
Bear Ears: on the Donald Trump chopping block
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GREEN
Uranium Company Urged Trump To Carve Up Bears Ears, Then He Did
By Mary Papenfuss
An energy firm's lobbying team was led by Trump's incoming EPA deputy secretary.
BLUFF, UT - JUNE 14: A detail of Procession Panel, a 15-ft long petroglyph panel thought to represent a ceremonial gathering or migration story that depicts 179 human-like forms coming from three different directions and converging on a central circle and also includes figures of deer, snakes and mountain sheep, is seen as the sun sets June 14, 2017 near Bluff, UT. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
President Trump's Bears Ears Order Is An Illegal Attack On Tribal Sovereignty
By John E. Echohawk, Contributor
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
The action fits a long pattern of discrimination and disrespect.
NASA
GREEN
A Major New U.S. Report Affirms: Climate Change Is Getting Worse
By The Atlantic, Contributor
Exploring the American idea since 1857
The United States sets many more extreme heat records than extreme cold records; it sees more intense heat waves and weaker, briefer cold snaps.
Bears Ears, the twin rock formations which form part of Bears Ears National Monument in the Four Corners region, are pictured in Utah, U.S. May 16, 2017. Picture taken May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Bob Strong TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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POLITICS
Trump's 'Review' Of Utah Monument Was Over Before It Started
By Chris D'Angelo
The designation of Bears Ears "should never have happened," the president said in launching what his team claimed would be a fair and thorough process.
A canoe that a Florida man said he found washed ashore after Hurricane Irmas landfall last week is being carbon dated by archeologists
Florida Division of Historical Resources
ARTS & CULTURE
Canoe Found After Hurricane Irma Eyed As Piece Of Florida History
By Nina Golgowski
The dugout canoe is believed to have surfaced from the bottom of the Indian River, along Florida's east coast.
(NEW ZEALAND OUT) New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless, who plays the character 'Xena', stands on the set at dusk during the final night of filming for the last episode of 'Xena, the Warrior Princess' 30 March, 2001. The top rated series is shot in New Zealand and shown in 115 countries. Lawless, 33, was tight-lipped about Xena 's final fate. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read RICHARD ROBINSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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WOMEN
DNA Test Reveals Powerful Viking Warrior Was Actually A Woman
By Alanna Vagianos
Basically, researchers just discovered the Viking version of Xena the Warrior Princess.
A picture taken on September 9, 2017 shows an Egyptian labourer unearthing skulls and bone remains at a newly-uncovered ancient tomb for a goldsmith dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Amun, in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the ancient city of Luxor, which boasts ancient Egyptian temples and burial grounds. The finds at the tomb of 'Amun's Goldsmith, Amenemhat', which dates back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), also contained a sculpture carved into a recess of him seated beside his wife, with a portrait of their son painted between them, in addition to another 150 small funerary statues carved in wood, clay and limestone. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the antiquities ministry said. / AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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WORLD NEWS
Archaeologists In Egypt Unearth 3,500-Year-Old Tomb
Egyptian archaeologists discovered statues, mummies and jewelry in the tomb of a prominent goldsmith who lived around 15th century B.C.
AlloCine
WEIRD NEWS
Why We Love (And Fear) Mummies
By The Conversation Global, Contributor
The Conversation is a collaboration between editors and academ...
A few decades later, the Romance of the Mummy, by French novelist Théophile Gautier, associated for the first time eroticism
Bob Wick
GREEN
Secretary Zinke: Please Leave Our National Monuments Alone
By Will Rogers, Contributor
President of The Trust for Public Land
This attempt to roll back protections for national monuments is unprecedented and terribly misguided.
'The Last Supper', 1494-1498. The mural painting was for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan and was commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Da Vinci's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in the Gospel of John, 13:21. From World Famous Paintings edited by J Grieg Pirie [W.& G. Foyle Ltd., London, 1938.] (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
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TASTE
What Wine Would Jesus Drink? We May Finally Have The Answer
By Antonia Blumberg
Cheers! 🍷🍷🍷
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ARTS & CULTURE
Cave Art Made Over 30,000 Years Ago Suggests New Ideas About Ice Age Culture
By Priscilla Frank
Europe may not be the cave art hub we think it is.
A destroyed artifact is seen at a museum, where Islamic State militants filmed themselves destroying priceless statues and sculptures in 2015, during a battle against the militants in Mosul, Iraq, March 11, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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THE WORLDPOST
Islamic State Used Mosul Museum As Tax Department
A 2015 video showed militants wielding sledgehammers to smash "idolatrous" statues.
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