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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=111091"><P>Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">drought</SPAN></FONT></A> across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">antique</SPAN></FONT></A> items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report. </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.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=111091"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wnd.com/img/6E2616B7-AA03-48F8-B108-20F286B6DB69" 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.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=111091"><P>The report from <A href="http://www.memri.org">the Middle East Media Research Institute </A>said the coins with Joseph's name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt. </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.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=111091"><P>MEMRI, which <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink2"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">monitors</SPAN></FONT></A> and translates reports from Middle East publications and broadcasters, said the original report was in Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper in Cairo. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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