A walk through time: the Nubia Museum at Aswan chronicles one of Africa's most influential cultures

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Egypt's Nubia Museum offers visitors access to 11,000 years of cultural art and artifacts. The museum's exhibits feature many articles of ancient Nubian civilization, including combs, vessels, clay tablets, tools, jewelry, textiles. A model of the Quban fortress is also on display, accompanied by panels on the mining and gold working activities that occurred within its walls.

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Napoleon's lost fleet: divers discover what really happened at the Battle of the Nile

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Divers working under the direction of a French marine geologist near Alexandria, Egypt, have discovered remnants of French ships sunk by the British Navy during the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The artifacts have brought to light new information about Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson's 'surprise' attack and destruction of the poorly-positioned French fleet.

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Ancient ancestors? Kenyan fossils complicate the picture of early hominid evolution

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The discovery of a 3.5-mil-old cranium in northern Kenya prompting a possible demotion of the australopithecine branch in the human family tree is discussed. The skull was named Kenyanthropus platyops and has a strikingly different appearance from australopithecus afarensis.

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