Viggen Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Archaeologists have begun to piece together the story of a mysterious massacre more than 4,000 years ago in the former royal city of Mendes, which flourished for 20 centuries on a low mound overlooking the green fields and papyrus marshes of the Nile delta north of Cairo. Donald Redford of Pennsylvania State University had begun to excavate the foundations of a huge temple linked to Rameses II, the pharaoh traditionally linked to the biblical story of Moses, when he found an earlier structure destroyed by fire, and evidence of a grisly episode of death on the Nile, he told a Bloomsbury Academy conference in London on Saturday. full article at Guardian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLavius Valerius Constantinus Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Hmmm, I love how the Bible is historically accurate sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 bioanthropologist, that's a branch of Anthropology I've never heard of before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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