LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 10 -- The J. Paul Getty Trust issued the following news release: * * * Discover Eight Millennia of Nubian Art and Architecture Rita E. Freed's new book redefines Nubia's legacy--revealing its creative brilliance and cultural power beyond Egypt's shadow * At the height of the empire's power, Nubian royalty reigned over one of the largest empires in the ancient world and had contacts extending north to Greece and Rome, south to sub-Saharan Africa, east to the Red  more

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Feb. 9 (TNSjou) -- Newcastle University issued the following news: * * * 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. * Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, have re-examined a small copper-alloy object excavated a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, and conc  more