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Over one hundred and twenty-five years ago some unknown party smuggled out a 3000-year-old coffin they most likely obtained from excavations in the Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs. The wooden sarcophagus was plastered and painted in an elaborate fashion, and covered with images and religious inscriptions that were later deciphered and understood to be instructions to aid the soul of the deceased on its journey through the afterlife.

Egyptian authorities using modern medical technology to further investigate King Tut’s family and health have announced the results that the world has been so eager to hear. Their objectives were to use innovative approaches to the new fields of molecular and medical Egyptology, in the attempt to determine the relationships between the royal mummies housed at the Egyptian Museum at Cairo.

The Pharaoh of ancient Egypt popularly known as ‘King Tut’ became ruler when he was only 9 years old. At age 18, after ruling 9 years he suddenly died and the cause of his death has never been identified. Some historians believe he died of an injury to the leg which turned gangrenous, and others believe he was murdered by a blow to the head.

Following the Nag Hammadi shooting incident outside a church in southern Egypt, in which six Coptic Christians and a Muslim security guard were killed, thousands of mourners gathered to support the grieving families at the funeral were sprayed with tear gas by government security forces. However, the three suspected perpetrators have now been arrested and are scheduled to stand trial on the 13th February 2010 in an emergency State Security Court.

Last week we wrote about the triple barbed wire fence along Israel’s border with Egypt. Now according to Col. Ann Wright, a retired US Army Reserve Colonel and a former U.S. diplomat, the USA has authorized (Dec 9th 2009) the Army Corps of Engineers to design a vertical underground wall under the border between Egypt and Gaza.

In a well-known 1914 poem entitled ‘Mending Wall’ by American poet Robert Frost he has one man questioning the need to keep mending the stone wall between his property and his neighbour’s land each year. And the neighbour replies, “Good fences make for good neighbours”. This poem, recycling a 17th century English proverb, is widely quoted and referred to in American society, but is it really true? Do good fences make for good neighbours?

Egyptian Coptic parents are tattooing their children with tiny Coptic cross to symbolise their Christian identity and community. The tattoo was once used to identify Christian orphans whose parents had been killed in war.

Christian people throughout the world who believe the Biblical account written in the Book of Genesis of the creation of Adam and Eve may not be surprised by the recent news from the world of science, but everyone else is astonished that The Genographic Project has proven that every man alive on earth today is descended from the same male ancestor in Africa.

We have all heard, seen and read all the articles, programs, and warnings from the medical experts for many years now, about how not getting enough exercise, eating too much fast food, meat and cholesterol rich foods, as well as smoking tobacco causes the very high rates of death and disability from cardiovascular disease in our society. That included outcomes such as heart disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and strokes.

Poor people in the region of Sinai have been looting the food, medicine and other aid items intended for the poor of Gaza. They have looted the sports stadium in Al-Reesh, where tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza has been piling up since last January.