June 23 New stories

Weekends are usually slow, I've found. This one seems to be no exception.

News stories as of 10:25 AM:

Glory On A Domestic Scale
The Wall Street Journal
The most amazing thing about the Ara Pacis Augustae -- Augustus Caesar's Altar of Peace -- is that it is here at all. That's because, for almost 1,500 years, it wasn't. Its presence signifies a triumph of ingenuity, curiosity, engineering, diplomacy and sheer luck over the depredations of floods, time and weather. Uncertainty, ambiguity and plain ignorance attend almost every detail on it...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118256374301745525.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Archaeologists Race To Uncover Lost Kingdom On Nile
The Chronicle Herald
On the periphery of history in antiquity, there was a land known as Kush. Overshadowed by Egypt, to the north it was a place of uncharted breadth and depth far up the Nile, a mystery verging on myth. One thing the Egyptians did know and recorded — Kush had gold...
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Science/843144.html

Three Thousand Year Old Mummy Discovered
The Age
Archaeologists have discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a high priest to the god Amun in the southern city of Luxor, antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass told the official MENA news agency today...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/three-thousand-year-old-mummy-discovered/2007/06/23/1182019431567.html