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Though Harvard offers the occasional course related to ancient Egyptian history, it has not had an egyptology professor since 1942, when Reisner died during an excavation in Giza, Egypt...
...director of the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston—a Web-based initiative that aims to “assemble and link” the world’s archaeological information on the Egyptian Pyramids—Manuelian has worked to publish Reisner’s findings from the period between...
Manuelian, who hopes to engage students in the project, wrote in an e-mailed statement that he is “very excited” about the potential synergy between Harvard and the MFA—“with Giza work progressing on both sides of the Charles River (and eventually along the Nile...
...mega-projects across Alberta's oil sands rival some of humankind's greatest engineering achievements, including the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China. After thousands of years, those ancient projects still bear witness to history. Conservative estimates predict the tar sands will give out in just 70 years. Their legacy to Canada is yet to be written, but it may be a great deal bigger than expectations. With new deposits still being found and technologies improving, the sands could produce for a couple of hundred years more. Forget Venezuela. Canada may become the new Saudi Arabia...
...masses do not write history.' ZAHI HAWASS, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, on the "New 7 Wonders of the World." Egyptian authorities are angry that the Great Pyramids of Giza did not make the list of winners, which were tallied in a global online vote...