New News stories for June 28

Like yesterday, I predict that the major news story will be the discovery of the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut.

New stories as of 5:31 PM:

Photo Gallery: Mummy of Egypt's "Lost Queen" Found
National Geographic News
June 27, 2007—This mummy is the body of gender-bending female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled ancient Egypt as both queen and king nearly 3,500 years ago, archaeologists announced today...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleries/queen-mummy/index.html

New stories as of 4:45 PM:

Scientists Link Housecats to Wildcat Subspecies
New York Times
Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wild cat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There she felt safe from her many predators in the region, such as hyenas and larger cats, and the rodents that infested the settlers’ homes and granaries were sufficient prey for her...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/science/28cnd-cat.html?ref=science


New stories as of 10:55 AM:

Egypt Says Mummy of Queen Discovered
Newsday.com
CAIRO, Egypt -- A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah -- possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday...
http://www.newsday.com/search/sns-ap-egypt-lost-queen,0,6986065.story

Archaeologists Identify Egyptian Queen
NewKerala.com
CAIRO, June 27: Archaeologists in Egypt say they've solved the mystery of the lost mummy of Hatshepsut, an Egyptian queen who reigned in the 15th century B.C...
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=42786
Also posted at:
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=153078

Egypt Says Mummy Of Ancient Queen Identified
NPR
Ancient Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut, has been identified Egyptian archaeologists said Wednesday...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11478981
This story appears to be in an audio format, linked from the page above.

Royal Find
Nashua Telegraph
CAIRO, Egypt– The long-overlooked mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer, has been identified as Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt’s most powerful female pharaoh, Egyptian archaeologists said Wednesday...
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS03/206280415/-1/news
Also posted to:
http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/151588.html

World's Oldest And Intact Ivory Carving Found
NewKerala.com
London, June 28 : Archaeologists have found what is believed to be the world's oldest fully intact ivory carving of a mammoth from an Ice Age site in Germany that was inhabited by the first Homo sapiens 35,000 years ago...
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=42585

Queen Mummy
The Globe And Mail
CAIRO -- The mummy of an obese woman in her 50s who had rotten teeth and likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer has been identified as that of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh, Egypt's top archaeologist said yesterday...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070628.A2MUMMY28/TPStory/International

Sarcophagus, Unique Gold Jewelry Unearthed In Bulgaria
Novinite.com
Bulgarian archaeologists have found Thursday a stone sarcophagus full of unique gold jewellery and ceramic and glass utensils in a mound near the village of Stroyno...
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=82412


Video: Egypt's Most Famous Female King Found
National Geographic
June 27, 2007—Egypt's most famous female pharaoh—known for depictions showing her with a false beard—has been identified, Egyptian archaeologists announced today...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070627-hatshepsut-video.html

Egypt's Pharaoh Hatshepsut Said Found
Discovery News
June 27, 2007 —The mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, has been identified, thanks to gum disease and a missing molar...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/27/egyptqueen_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070627065330

'Lucy' Fossil To Go On U.S. Tour
Discovery News
June 27, 2007 — A fossil tour doesn't have to mean an aging rock band's reunion concerts. The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's most famous fossils — the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 — to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/27/lucy_arc.html?category=archaeology&guid=20070627140000