July 26th News

Art, Sports, Nature, and a previously unknown city. There's lots to choose from today.

New stories as of 5:50 PM:

Researchers Find Evidence of Hidden City
Fox News
CAIRO, Egypt — Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name amid his quest to conquer the world _ but his was apparently not the first city on the famed site on Egypt's Mediterranean coast...
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul26/0,4670,EgyptBeforeAlexander,00.html

Is Fake Big Toe From Ancient Egypt World's First Known Prosthetic?
940 Montreal
TORONTO (CP) - A British researcher is taking steps to prove whether an artificial big toe found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy is actually the world's earliest known functional prosthetic body part...
http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php?cat=23&id=726112

New stories as of 10:44 AM:

Athens Show Sheds Light On Sculptor Praxiteles
Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - He dared to bare Aphrodite, becoming one of antiquity's most popular sculptors and influencing art through the centuries but precious little of Praxiteles' work has survived...
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL2621441820070726

Photo In The News: "World's Longest Tusks" Among Greek Mastodon Find
National Geographic News
July 26, 2007—This is one ancient animal that brings a whole new meaning to being long in the tooth...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070726-mastodon-tusks.html

Geologists Uncover Evidence Of City Hidden Beneath Alexandria
International Herald Tribune
CAIRO, Egypt: Alexander the Great founded Alexandria to immortalize his name on his way to conquer the world, but his may not have been the first city on the famed site on Egypt's Mediterranean coast...
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/26/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Alex-Before-Alexander.php

KPI Granted Exclusive Access To Newly Discovered Sunken Roman Forts In Irish Sea Off England
PR Newswire
NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KPI, a unit of Lightworks Producing Group (LPG), a multi-faceted television production company and part of vertically integrated Lightworks Enterprises, Inc., today announced that it has been granted exclusive television access to document the newly discovered sunken forts of Meols.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-26-2007/0004633291&EDATE=

Egyptians Played Ancient Version Of Bowling 2000 Years Back
Daily India
Washington, July 26: Egyptians played an ancient version of bowling between the second and third century AD, recent excavations some 56 miles south of capital Cairo by a team of Italian archaeologists has revealed....
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/160427.php/Egyptians-played-ancient-version-of-bowling-2000-years-back

Evidence Found Of City Beneath Alexandria
Mathaba News Agency
Scientists have found hidden underwater traces of a city that existed at Alexandria seven centuries before Alexander the Great swept through Egypt during his quest to conquer the known world...
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=558788

Ancient Egyptians Played Ball Games
ShortNews.com
The ancient Egyptians once played a ball game that seemed to be a mixture of bowling, billiards and bowls, according to Italian archaeologists. The team found a room where the game used to be played at a dig site south of Cairo.
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63813

Tenth Century Burial Ground Uncovered At Construction Site
Kyiv Post
A burial ground dating back to the 10th century was found on the construction site of a new office center alongside the Dnipro River in Kyiv’s Podil district. City officials backed the construction company’s right to continue building at the location, while the developer has pledged Hr 300,000 ($60,000) to help investigate the site thought to be an early Christian cemetery near the Poshtova Ploshcha metro station...
http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/27009/