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...Number of people who have voted in an Internet campaign to choose seven "new" wonders of the world out of 21 historic buildings and monuments 2,200 Estimated years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and Middle East named the ancient seven wonders. Only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...Approximate number of years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and the Middle East selected the ancient seven wonders. Today, only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...business with Israelis even as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still rages. But he insists that such deals will benefit the region by forming business bridges. "This is a very big step," says Sawiris, sipping an espresso in his 26th-floor office overlooking downtown Cairo, the Nile River and the Giza pyramids. "I am betting that peace will prevail...
...residents hope. Researchers last week excavated geometrically cut stones from a hill near the town--apparently the building blocks of the first ancient step pyramid ever found in Europe. Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic estimates the pyramid is 722 ft. high--a third taller than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza--and was built about 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilization. Other experts are skeptical. "More likely," says UCLA archaeologist Willeke Wendrich, "this is a case of Europeans around 6 A.D. with a bit of Egyptomania." Visoko's people see the pyramid, authentic or not, as a marketing opportunity. Mugs...
...late Friday night, riot police surrounded the makeshift camp with public transport buses on hand ready to move the refugees to camps in the desert of Dahshur near the Saqqara pyramids in Giza. For almost four hours police officers used microphones to urge the protesters to peacefully end their sit-in. The refugees responded by throwing empty liquor bottles, iron rods, stones, and tree branches at the police. Police reacted by directing high-powered water jets at the refugees. As the police set upon the refugees, a stampede ensued. The clash ended with about 20 deaths and at least...