CAIRO -- The discovery of gold cartouches dating back to 1400 BC sheds new light on the relationship between two ancient Egyptian rulers, Egypt's antiquities department said on Friday ( Read more... )

Do you know that.....

Human beings are the sweatiest creatures in the animal kingdom. In a hot desert, a person can lose over two gallons of sweat in a day.

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Amy and Nyambe are snoozing on the sofa as I type and they look so incredibly cute together.

Egypt threatened on Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse years ago.

The St. Louis Art Museum has a week to turn over the 19th dynasty (1307-1196 BC) mask of Ka-nefer-nefer or face legal action, according to Zahi Hawass, secretary- ( Read more... )

Amy is already looking into going back to work part-time in Autumn ( Read more... )

Plans to construct a temporary running track at the ancient stadium of Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, has upset Greek archaeologists.
The Central Archaeological Council (CAS) has vetoed proposals to install a modern track over the original one in the stadium for an international athletics event backed by the International Olympic ( Read more... )

It would be so much simpler if we shared the same dates for Mother's day, Father's day etc around the globe because it's all too confusing with family spread out around the world these days.

We are really looking forwards to Deb's party tonight but I don't think we will be amongst the revellers who stay up to see dawn.

We took Nyambe to Luca's party this afternoon and she was so nosy watching all the other children having fun ( Read more... )

Mat and I now have something of a new dad's club.

It's a valuable resource for us both. Lol.