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Google Blog Search
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Google have launched a blog search engine.

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively...

Google Blog Search.

Searching for Egyptology list my blog first and also as a related link! Yah!

cf. Google gives spotlight to blogs with new search tool, AFP via Yahoo! News, USA, September 16, 2005.


#901 posted by Mark Morgan on 16 September 2005, 6:30:03 PM  Permalink   comment [] trackback []

Scanning tech reveals mummy mysteries
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More on the mummy of Sherit.

Researchers have uncovered the mysteries surrounding a 2,000-year-old mummy without peeling back layers of bandages or even opening the gold-plated coffin.

Using a state-of-the-art CT scanner that rotated all the way around the tiny mummified girl, San Jose-based Silicon Graphics Inc. took 60,000 images and created 3-D models that allowed scientists to look at her resin-filled body cavities, her facial features, even her baby teeth.

Led by a team at Stanford University, researchers also discovered a painting of a sphinx on the mask covering her mummified face.

The mummy — and her high-tech trappings — will be on display at San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium throughout August...

Scanning tech reveals mummy mysteries, AP via Foster's Daily Democrat, New Hampshire, USA, September 13, 2005.

cf. Scientists Reach Back 2,000 Years to Bring Our Rare Child Mummy Back to Life, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium, San Jose, California, USA, August, 2005.   There is a good slideshow on this page also.


#900 posted by Mark Morgan on 16 September 2005, 12:11:00 AM  Permalink   comment [] trackback []