Lost Egyptian City Reveals Horrors of Lives of Pharoh's Builders


	Lost Egyptian City Reveals Horrors of Lives of Pharoh's Builders

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1-29-2008 7:28 AM

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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/8de50597-7479-4fe6-b559-fc9d856f826d/6B1040CE-5411-455D-8180-D1E58F9942EF/" 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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/2D64E059-36DB-46D3-99C4-0B40265C805A" alt="Egy005_2" /></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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html"><P>
 Evidence of the brutal lives endured by some ancient Egyptians to build the monuments of the Pharaohs has been uncovered by archaeologists at Amarna, a new capital built on the orders of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, 3,500 years ago.</p> <P>Archaeologists from a British-based team made a breakthrough when they
found human bones in the desert, which had been washed out by floods.</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html">Skeletal remains from a lost city in the middle of Egypt suggest many
ordinary people died in their teenage years and lived a punishing
lifestyle with common spinal injuries, poor nutrition and stunted
growth. The temples and palaces required thousands of large stone
blocks.
Working in summer temperatures of 40C (104F), the workers would have
had to chisel these out of the rock and transport them 1.5 miles (2.5
km) from the quarries to the city.</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.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/lost-egyptian-c.html">
Even Akhanaten's son, Tutankhamen, died aged just 20; and
archaeologists are now beginning to believe that there might also have
been an epidemic here.</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/6B1040CE-5411-455D-8180-D1E58F9942EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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