Digging up the forgotten past of ordinary Egyptian folk


	Digging up the forgotten past of ordinary Egyptian folk
JohnWaterman
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/abd0c674-8372-40e7-ae8e-847cd21ff7c3/276E4999-FDD7-4194-AF80-73F68C2B3A31/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin"><P>Archaeologists have long fixed their sights on the grandeur that was ancient <A title="More news and information about Egypt." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Egypt</A>, the pyramids, temples and tombs. Few bothered to dig beneath and beyond the monumental stones for glimpses into the living and working spaces of ordinary Egyptians.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin"><P>That is changing slowly but steadily. In the last two or three decades, excavations have uncovered urban remains and swept  aside the conventional wisdom that the Egypt of the pharaohs, in contrast to Mesopotamia, was somehow a civilization without cities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/6E8E2AB0-1CBF-4973-A404-016A546B78CB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">We can now confirm that this was not the case,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">discovery of a large administration building and seven grain silos buried at the site of an ancient provincial capital on the Upper Nile</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">This is a really amazing site, at the cutting-edge of recent Egypt archaeology</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">Digging into towns, you get the full range of life, not the very narrow view of society as seen from the top, from the rich and elite</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">Where there are temples</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin">they were surrounded by towns which have usually been overlooked</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01egyp.html?_r=2&ref=science&oref=slogi&oref=slogin"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/40F81FC3-971C-49E5-9BA0-61495253892B" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/276E4999-FDD7-4194-AF80-73F68C2B3A31/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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