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...most detailed map ever made of the ancient Egyptian coastline. Excavations based on this topographical research led to his discovery of Herakleion and part of the city of Canopus in the same year. Without doubt, Goddio's most glamorous work has been mapping and excavating the Royal Quarters of Alexandria. He identified the probable site of Cleopatra's palace on the island of Antirrhodos, which featured an esplanade lined with statues and granite columns. At about the same time, French archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur, working a concession in Alexandria's eastern harbor, discovered the likely remains of the Lighthouse...
SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, ex-FBI counterintelligence expert who pleaded guilty, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, to providing thousands of classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Russians; to life in prison with no possibility of parole; in a federal court in Alexandria, Va. Believed to be one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, Hanssen said: "I apologize for my behavior. I am shamed...
...Miller will be presented with $45,500 and a Joan Miro sculpture at a ceremony later this year by Spain's Prince Felipe of Asturias. SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, the former fbi agent who doubled as a Russian spy for 20 years, to life in prison without parole; in Alexandria, Virginia. Hanssen, who apologized for his activities, which had led to the deaths of several fbi operatives, managed to escape the death penalty by cooperating with investigators...
...protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates of the U.S. embassy. Another protester was killed in Alexandria, Egypt when police fired rubber bullets to stop a mob from marching on the city's American cultural center. In the most troubling incident to date, an apparent terrorist attack on the Tunisian island of Djerba targeted one of the last remnants of North Africa's 2,000-year-old Jewish...
...information out of Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker"? In the weeks since he was charged with conspiracy, it appears they have hardly tried. Sources close to the case tell TIME that federal prosecutors haven't pressured the alleged terrorist, who is now behind bars in Alexandria, Va., to find out what he knows about the Sept. 11 terror plot. Capital punishment is often used as a threat to extract information, but the government has not played that card since charging Moussaoui in December, the sources say. "They know there are others out there who were involved in planning...