 Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Dr. Cheryl Ward, associate professor of anthropology at Florida State University, talk to Rossella Lorenzi about two pharaonic boats buried beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu.Primary Format :
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Pompeii: The Last HoursA fictional account, based on new research findings, reconstructs the last hours of a Pompeii's residents, Caius Iulius Polybius.
Written and produced by Rossella Lorenzi. Narrated by Dan Kirsch.
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Puzzle Of The Pyramid BoatsIn this podcast, we talk about a glorious heap of beams and planks buried beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu 4,500 years ago. The ancient wood fragments will soon be excavated and reassembled, Ikea style, into a unique pharaonic boat.
The vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954. Painstakingly reconstructed, this ship now stands resurrected in a museum built above the place where it was discovered.
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A Greek Mummy The first evidence of artificial mummification in ancient Greece lies in a lead coffin at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, according to a Swiss-Greek research team. Dating to 300 A.D., when the Romans ruled Greece, the partially mummified remains belong to a middle-aged woman who led a privileged life.
Rossella Lorenzi talks to Dr. Frank Rühli, one of the world's top mummy experts, about this unique find.
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