A nine-ton granite temple pylon from Cleopatra’s palace complex has been lifted from Alexandria’s harbor.  A 4,000-year-old lentil discovered in Turkey has germinated. “Barley, lentil, wheat, all of these originated in Anatolia,” said Nükhet Bingöl of Dumlupinar University.  Two blocks of butter were found in early twentieth-century British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s hut in […]
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