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Egypt
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DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen

afrol News, 17 July - Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt's most powerful female ruler.

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Sudan
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Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)

afrol News, 27 June - Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing centre in Sudan, along the middle Nile, an installation that produced the precious metal sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC. The centre, along with a cemetery they discovered, documents extensive control by the first sub-Saharan kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.

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Egypt
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Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered

afrol News, 4 June - A Dutch mission from Leiden Museum last week came across a huge tomb that dates back to the era of King Akhenaton, the 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, some 3,400 years ago.

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Botswana | World
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World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana

afrol News, 1 December - Archaeologists have discovered what seems to be remains of the world's earliest religious worship site in the remote Ngamiland region of Botswana. Here, our ancestors performed advanced rituals, worshipping the python some 70,000 years ago. The sensational discovery strengthens Africa's position as the cradle of modern man.

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Mali
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Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance

afrol News, 13 September - Efforts to conserve, store and expose the estimated 700,000 Timbuktu manuscripts, one of Africa's principal cultural heritages, are going well ahead. Malians are educated into specialised manuscript conservators in South Africa and Tunisia and a new building to house the manuscripts is already being constructed in Mali's ancient town of Timbuktu.

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» 12.04.2006 - Medieval trans-Sahara mineral trade mapped
» 07.04.2006 - Secrets of Judas, Jesus kept in Egypt for 1700 years
» 29.07.2005 - South Africans consider other races most racist
» 16.06.2005 - Aka Pygmies "best dads in the world"
» 26.04.2005 - Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
» 06.04.2005 - Egypt's pharaohs enjoyed red wine
» 31.03.2005 - Role of African memorial museums discussed
» 23.03.2005 - East Africans "genetically most diverse"
» 09.02.2005 - African rock art "under severe threat"
» 25.01.2005 - Religious knowledge set found to check Africa's development
» 25.01.2005 - 4.5 million-year-old hominids found in Ethiopia
» 29.11.2004 - Scull of Egypt's biblical Pharaoh may be found
» 06.09.2004 - New tomb found below Egypt's Giza pyramids
» 02.07.2004 - Million-year-old human skull found in Kenya
» 20.04.2004 - South Africa "cradle of human culture"
» 25.03.2004 - African scientists map origin of continent's cattle
» 10.02.2004 - Rock paintings in South Africa older than thought
» 05.11.2003 - Earliest ever stone tool excavated in Ethiopia
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied

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