Life was tough for Ancient Egyptians


	Life was tough for Ancient Egyptians

LisbethJ

3-30-2008 8:27 PM

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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/aa193e22-e1ba-4ad8-9a32-4119006628d6/6CB4D7EE-CE82-4001-9CA8-19B4627D38D2/" 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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc"><H1>
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                                        Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians                </H1></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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/930E7359-264A-4C6B-BF39-404AD51B4789" alt="The Giza pyramids in a file photo. New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)" /></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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc">Rose displayed pictures showing spinal injuries among
teenagers, probably because of accidents during construction
work to build 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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc"><P>
                        CAIRO (Reuters) - 
New evidence of a sick, deprived
population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier
images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the
ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found.                        
                        </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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc"><P>Tell el-Amarna was briefly the capital of ancient Egypt
during the reign of the <SPAN id="lw_1206889105_0" class="yshortcuts">pharaoh Akhenaten</SPAN>, who abandoned most
of <SPAN id="lw_1206889105_1" class="yshortcuts">Egypt</SPAN>'s old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk and brought
in a new and more expressive style of art.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080330/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc"><P>Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362 BC, built
and lived in Tell el-Amarna in central Egypt for 15 years. The
city was largely abandoned shortly after his death and the
ascendance of the famous boy king Tutankhamun to the throne.</P></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/6CB4D7EE-CE82-4001-9CA8-19B4627D38D2/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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