Colorful cotton!

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Algodon nativo is a multicolored cotton well known for its long staple, colorful fibers and natural resistance to insects, cultivated on the eastern slopes of the Andes 3,000 ft above sea level. An anthropologist, James Vreeland of the University of Texas, Austin, researched on ancient textile production in Peru. He made serious efforts to revive the traditional spinning, hand weaving and cultivation of this colorful cotton.

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Treasures of the Indus: a rare collection of jewelry and sculpture makes its American debut

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"Great Cities, Small Treasures: The Ancient World of the Indus Valley," an exhibition of artifacts from the Indus River Valley civilization, will open at the Asia Society in New York, NY, on Feb 11, 1998. The exhibition contains over 100 artifacts from this great early culture, which flourished in Pakistan and northwestern India from the early 3d millennium to the early 2d millennium BC.

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Tales from the crypt; a descent into the Tomb of Osiris

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A visit to the Osiris Tomb on Egypt's Giza Plateau is described. The burial chambers of this tomb contain sarcophagi in the classic Saite style of Dynasty 26, which dates to the 6th and 7th centuries BC. The tomb had been known to archaeologists since the 1930s, but fluctuating groundwater on the plateau had prevented a scientific exploration.

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