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Cleopatra and Mark Antony were immortalised as two of history's greatest lovers, but their final resting place has always been a mystery. Now archaeologists in Egypt are about to start excavating a site that they believe could conceal their tombs. Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Superior Council for Antiquities, said yesterday that there was evidence to suggest that Cleopatra and Mark Antony were buried together in the complex tunnel system underlying the Tabusiris Magna temple, 17 miles from the city of Alexandria. The dig, which begins next week, could reveal answers to the many myths surrounding the pair -- including speculation about the Queen's reputed beauty and the couple's suicide. Teams from Egypt and the Dominican Republic will begin excavating three sites along the tunnels in the hope that one of the deep shafts will lead to a burial chamber. The sites were identified by a radar scan. Kathleen Martínez, an Egyptologist from the Dominican Republic who is work...

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates. Dating of cremated remains shows burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, researchers said Thursday. And those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, they said. " It's now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages ," said Mike Parker Pearson, archaeology professor at the University of Sheffield in England and head of the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project. In the past many archaeologists had thought that burials at Stonehenge continued for only about a century, the researchers said. " Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The crem...

Franse archeologen hebben in Ethiopië de restanten gevonden van drie belangrijke steden die het hart vormden van het mohammedaanse koninkrijk van Shoa. Dat kondigdenze dinsdag aan. Het gaat om een legendarisch koninkrijk, dat tot nog toe niemand opeen kaart kon lokaliseren. Het koninkrijk, dat alleen gekend is uit teksten, beheerste het gebied tussen de 10de en de 16de eeuw. Het controleerde de belangrijke commerciële weg die door de christelijke hoogvlaktes liep aan de mohammedaanse havens van de Rode Zee. Dat schrijft het Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in een communiqué. Steile helling De drie ontdekte steden - Asbäri, Mäsal en Nora - bevinden zich op een steile helling van het dal van de Rift, op ongeveer 1.300 meter hoogte. Het gebied, waar je de restanten van een oude terrasvormige landbouwcultuur nog kan zien, is vandaag volledig bedekt met ondoordringbaar struikgewas. Het Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE) heeft er moskeeën, woonwijken, muren en...