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Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation. Supreme Council of Antiquities / AP Archaeologists unearth a 42-foot-tall statue of the powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III at his ...
Six Decades Later, FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Still Tough to Crack
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In the film "Take the Money and Run," Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. "You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list," Starkwell's wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. "It's very unfair voting. It's who you know." As Allen's fictitious character learned, getting on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is no easy feat. Just being a vicious criminal or a menace to society isn't always enough. For one, there has to be an opening. And then there's the selection process: A committee at FBI headquarters reviews ...
NATO Strikes on Libya an Echo of Serbia Conflict
By not in system - AOL NewsBELGRADE, Serbia -- NATO war planes hit tanks with deadly precision, with the aim of degrading a despot's army and leveling the playing field for a ragtag rebel force. In many ways, the air strikes on Libya mirror the Western alliance's Serbia campaign 12 years ago. Both conflicts targeted easily identifiable villains - Moammar Gadhafi today, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic back then. On both occasions, NATO scrambled its war planes after both leaders ignored international warnings to cease bloody crackdowns against opponents - Kosovo Albanians then, Libyan citizens now. The parallels ...
Rescuers Work to Net Sacred Turtle in Vietnam [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThousands of Vietnamese jostled and climbed trees around a lake in the capital today hoping to see a rare giant turtle considered sacred by many but in desperate need of medical attention. ...
Ancient Iraqi Ivories on Display at British Museum
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- The British Museum has acquired a collection of ancient carved ivories excavated in Iraq with the help of mystery maven Agatha Christie. The 6,000 pieces were found at the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud between 1949 and 1963 during an expedition led by archaeologist Max Mallowan. His wife, Christie, helped clean and preserve the objects when not working on thrillers including "They Came to Baghdad." The ivories were divided between Iraq and Britain, with the British portion held by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq. The museum has bought a third of the collection for ...
Abraham Lincoln Inauguration: Discoveries Gallery [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsIt's been 150 years since the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Take a look at the items and photos related to Lincoln that have been discovered during those years. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=988858&pid=988857&uts=1299188174 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Lincoln Discoveries A rare President Abraham ...
Museum Will Bring African American -- Make That 'American' -- History to National Mall
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyDAVIDSON, N.C. -- Black history has stood separate and unequal, relegated to one month of recognition -- and there's a reason for that. For too long, the contributions of minorities didn't make it into the history books. So February was the mid-winter corrective. Come Nov. 18, 2015, if all goes well, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will take an accounting of that history to the National Mall, alongside the Washington Monument and across from the National Museum of American History. It is a fitting place. The unfinished journey -- which at every step ...
False Toe Helped Mummy Walk Like an Egyptian
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsTwo artificial big toes from ancient Egypt may be the world's oldest prosthetic body parts, according to new research. The toes date back more than 2,000 years and were found in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, according to research published in the journal Lancet. One of the toes, which is mostly made out of wood, was found attached to the foot of a mummy called Tabaketenmut, who lived at some point between 950 and 710 B.C. U. of Manchester / AFP / Getty Images This artificial toe was discovered in 2000 in the necropolis of Thebes. The wood-and-leather device ...
Century-Old Time Capsule Unearthed in San Francisco [VIDEO]
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsSometimes students don't need to hit the books to learn history. Kids at San Francisco's Cleveland Elementary School experienced a blast from the past last week when a school volunteer discovered a time capsule left behind by students 100 years ago. While researching the history of the century-old school, Cleveland alum John Weidinger found a press clipping from 1910 that mentioned a copper box tucked inside a wall behind the cornerstone when the school was constructed, according to SFGate.com. Workers located the time capsule and opened it on Wednesday in front of a big crowd of ...
Humans May Have Left Africa Earlier Than Thought
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Modern humans may have left Africa thousands of years earlier than previously thought, turning right and heading across the Red Sea into Arabia rather than following the Nile to a northern exit, an international team of researchers says. Stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates indicate the presence of modern humans between 100,000 and 125,000 years ago, the researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Science / AP Researchers say that tools found at Jebel Faya in Sharjah Emirate indicate that modern humans may have left Africa thousands ...
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