and barracks for sailors or military troops have been discovered near the Giza Pyramids. They were in use
The barracks are located at the city while a newly discovered basin that may be part of a harbor is located by the Khentkawes town.
A military presence Where there is a port there are sailors. At the city the archaeologists found evidence that a series of long buildings called galleries held troops who could have participated in voyages to the Levant and possibly guarded VIPS while at Giza.
These galleries were about 23 feet (7 meters) high and each set was at least 113 feet (34.5 meters) long north to south.
The Lost City of the Pyramid Builders What was all this cedar from the Levant doing in a common workers barracks?
In fact these troops are represented in the tombs of highly placed officials and in pyramid temples.
You have representations of these gangs these troops repeated over and over again he said adding that the word for them can be translated as escort or the following.
which is a unit these troops could be organized into Lehner said. I wonder if we are basically seeing barracks not of the workers
but of elite crews of ships Lehner said. A pharaoh named Sahure had images in his valley temple (part of his pyramid complex) of troops near the king's ship of state he noted.
Lehner's suspicions that the galleries were meant for troops were reinforced in 2012 when the archaeologists discovered a broken hippo hip.
In ancient Egypt hippos were considered nuisances as the animals ate crops at night. The young troops go out
and they harpoon them and spear them he told the Toronto audience. There's actually a ritual in
This ritual could have taken place at Giza at a public place such as the harbor the hippo meat (apparently quite tasty) being consumed afterwards by the troops in the galleries.
These troops didn't always get the best food. The hippo meat would have been a nice respite from their everyday diet.
The troops didn't get as much cattle or Nile perch which were considered the more desirable forms of meat and fish.
The BBC reports that storms have uncovered unexploded WORLD WAR II bombs on beaches with the Royal Navy's Southern Dive Unit responding to an emergency call almost every day
and others are shells from British military training. Meanwhile up North on the Isle of Man storms have scoured beaches
#Pandas'Latest Threat: Horses? The 1600 pandas left living in the wild face a new threat:
Horses. Seeking a safe investment farmers in China's Sichuan Province have been increasingly buying up horses
Groups of monkeys are called missions tribes troops or cartloads. A troop will work together to take care of the young monkeys in the group.
They also like to play cuddle and protect each other. The strongest and largest of the male monkeys is the leader of the troop.
In monkey genus groups that practice polygyny the leader will mate with multiple females. The gestation periods for monkeys vary depending on the genus. For example the gestation for a rhesus monkey is 164 days Baboons have a similar gestation period of around 187 days.
When a troop of howler monkeys yell they can be heard for up to three miles. Grinning or pulling the lip is a sign of aggression in monkeys
along with yawning head bobbing and jerking the head and shoulders forward. Monkeys express affection and make peace with others by grooming each other.
They are used often in lab experiments because of their intelligence. A spider monkey is named after its long tail and lengthy spidery limbs.
However in 1783 when the American Revolutionary War ended Houckgeest decided to travel to Charleston South carolina
and make a new start. 10 Epic Battles That Changed History He loved the idea of American democracy he actually watched it very closely from Holland
Two by two (the soldiers) skated over the ice with bows and arrows in their hands and shot one at the leather ball and the other at a kind of hat of leather also laid upon the ice at a little distance from the gate Houckgeest wrote in his journal.
So how did he survive the buzzing attack? Turns out the man's attackers probably Africanized honeybees according to the local fire department are not as deadly as their name may suggest.
To be lethal the bees would likely have had to sting the man several hundred more times experts say.
because not all attacks are reported and partly because oftentimes people aren't quite sure what stung them.
While the victim of Thursday's attack in Wichita Falls Texas survived the incident not all killer bee victims have been as lucky.
and make sure the enemy doesn't repeat the threat Berenbaum told Live Science. Unfortunately for the victims of killer bee attacks the insects aren't very good at distinguishing between a true threat
and an accidental nudge from a noisy mower. Africanized honeybees are extremely protective of their hive and brood much more so than European honeybees.
Wayne Trivelpiece an Antarctic penguin researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric administration's Southwest Fisheries science Center based in La jolla Calif. agrees that climate change is a serious threat to these and other penguin populations around the world.
For instance whether Dutch women suffered through post-WORLD WAR II famines during pregnancy apparently influenced how skinny
Immune system Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight free radicals promoting immune system and nervous system health.
Many medium-to large-sized carnivores have come into direct conflict with humans leading to localised extinctions.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature suggests that brown hyaenas are under threat from human persecution
The fights that the males have are pretty ferocious up in the trees said Bill Ellis a koala researcher with the University of Queensland in Australia.
We think that by and large the fighting is a really significant biological event for them and that's probably why they are not so common.
#Another fundamental element in the fight against child cavities is watching what kids drink and how they drink it.
There are several forces creating this phenomenon. The coconut oil industry is working hard to win public favor.
and all by following the trail of a plant biologist who had collected maple branches there more than 40 years ago during the height of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam war.
while colonies with fewer cloudlike viral assaults survived the winter. The increasing prevalence of TRSV in conjunction with other bee viruses is associated with a gradual decline of host populations
and poisons millions of animals including about 100000 native carnivores ostensibly to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.
and many more are killed before any conflict has occurred even. How can that be? As NRDC's recently released film Wild Things explains the short answer is
and the size and strength of a wolf require that minimum breaking forces must be high...
It was practiced also in Japan during WORLD WAR II; sporadic reports indicate crucifixion has been used as recently as 2002 in the handful of countries where it is permitted still.
and was used in colonial America to punish slaves convicted of revolt. The last known use of the breaking wheel occurred in Prussia in 1841.
Two of the men were veterans who had been in explosions; two had been in skiing accidents
The Department of defense provided some funding for the work as one early application might be for veterans.
Sadly this traditional way of life is under threat from two principal trends. First children inheriting ranches from their parents are subdividing their properties.
and increases the chance of conflict between people their cows and predators with fewer and fewer prey options.
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods And in addition to the cashew's known nutritional benefits researchers have explored also the possibility of using the toxic oil found in the nut's shell as an antibiotic.
There are some nifty examples of the bold human imagination ranging from super sustainable cities to the intelligence revolution.
It is the crazy ones who will change the world not the worrywarts who think fear force
The author's most recent Op-Ed was Is Climate Change Response'Fight or Flight'or'Rest and Digest'?
or enforce community forest rights communities are often powerless to keep external forces such as unscrupulous actors in the timber
and other threats to their critically important soda lakes where they feed and breed. African Grey Parrots aggregate in tremendous numbers around fruiting trees and at forest openings rich in salts in Central African forests.
Groups of gorillas are called troops or bands. A band of gorillas can have as many as 50 members
Troops are led by a dominant male called a silverback which can often be identified by a gray strip of hair on his back.
Each time of day has its purpose for a troop of gorillas. Mornings and evenings are designated as feeding time.
Vitamin c also helps keep skin looking beautiful by helping fight against skin damage caused by the sun and pollution.
Climate change might also postpone the onset of leaf-color changes and leave fall hues lingering later into the year.
But as America braces for an onslaught of Super bowl snacks these words have a whole new relevance.
Before WORLD WAR II there were just a few recipes for what's now called dip though people had been dunking bread
These are countries coming out of civil war and struggling to get back on their feet Bausch said.
Rams fight to decide who will be the dominant male in their group. During the fight the males will face each other rear up on their back legs and crash their huge horns into each other.
Sometimes they charge as fast as 40 mph (64 km h). ) Eventually one of the rams ends up submitting
in western Africa, was prepared simply not to deal with the threat, he says. The caterpillars have munched through cocoa, bananas and maize (corn),
Liberia was unable to deal with the threat fast enough. Initially farmers who could not get hold of pesticides set fire to worms
and even in 2100 long-lived CFCS will remain the dominant ozone destroyers. But schedules are in place to phase out most of the remaining chemicals of concern.
and raised fears of a potential threat to human health. Last week, a joint mission of 22 international health and veterinary experts returned from investigating the outbreak with more questions than answers about the virus's pathology and epidemiology.
But there seems to be little threat to human health from the current form of the virus. It is destroyed by cooking,
similar to its mode of attack in monkeys. Further pathology tests are due to begin in spring at the Australian Animal health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria.
and the threat of infection could be reduced by moving fruit trees, where the bats roost, away from pig farms,
said at the symposium that the greatest threat to tropical species today is climate change.
And I don't deny the force of environmental questions but I think there are equally compelling
is the Chinese Academy of Sciences'flagship institute for conservation research. Around it, however, the forests have increasingly been being replaced by row upon row of rubber trees;
The force of economic development is beyond our imagination, says Chen Jin, director of the XTBG.
the conflict between development and conservation will never be reconciled, says Joachim Sauerborn, an agriculture researcher at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart,
It is an uphill struggle this is why conservation and poverty reduction go hand-in-hand, says Hasan Moinuddin of the Manila-based Asian Development Bank.
Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
Wheat genes could help fight fungal epidemics: Nature Newsas farmers around the world anxiously monitor the march of a deadly orange fungus across their wheat fields,
two research groups have reported progress in the battle against the lethal scourge: the cloning of two fungus-fighting genes.
Meanwhile, new types of stripe rust that can overcome the defences bred into commercial varieties have sparked a separate epidemic in the United states. It is amazing that we are still fighting this battle,
A similar synergistic effect between genes may also be useful in the fight against Ug99,
According to the Office of State Flood control and Drought Relief Headquarters, the drought, which started in November,
which finally came into force in 2004, allows the EU to approve GM CROPS when there is no scientific evidence of danger to health or environment;
Combined with record-breaking temperatures, unusually strong winds and alleged arson attacks, the fires have been particularly quick to spread through suburban areas that back onto bushland.
So, are we in danger of losing our closest allies in the fight against climate change?
Climate change and deforestation pose a double threat to rainforests. Keeping alive large amounts of forest will require big areas to remain undisturbed from logging and clearing.
Earliest onset date of swine flu reaching the United states, according to the CDC. 18 march 2009: Federal district of Mexico 0424/en/index. html>begins to pick up cases of swine flu.
US environment agency declares greenhouse gases a threat: Nature Newsthe US Environmental protection agency (EPA) today declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, a move that gives the Obama administration broad powers to regulate greenhouse gases without going through Congress.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the proposed endangerment finding confirms that greenhouse gases pose a serious problem for current and future generations,
also represented a threat. Under President George w bush, EPA scientists and officials prepared an endangerment finding,
But they have maintained also the threat of direct regulation if Congress fails to enact legislation.
Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat: Nature Newspublic-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1n1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs.
This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain,
Pig surveillance is largely the remit of animal health organizations, agriculture ministries and the farming industry.
Within minutes of the World health organization (WHO) announcement on 11 june that swine flu had become a pandemic, Bernard Vallat, director-general of an intergovernmental trade body,
But some experts say that is an artefact of patchy to nonexistent flu surveillance in pigs.
and his colleagues concluded that the lack of systematic swine surveillance allowed for the undetected persistence and evolution of this potentially pandemic strain for many years.
which coordinates work done by animal-flu surveillance labs worldwide, and former chief executive of the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
Whereas flu surveillance has improved over the past six years in poultry and wild birds, pigs have been below the radar,
Surveillance for swine flu is not something that has been high on the agenda of government services,
Most flu surveillance in pigs is passive, relying on farmers or vets sending material to government labs. Active targeted surveillance with diagnostic tests is rarer,
as it is more expensive. OFFLU has called on labs worldwide to share what information they have on swine flu,
and THE WHO on 21 may the conclusions of which were made public last week recommended scaling up flu surveillance efforts in pigs,
European union funding for one of the world's largest pig surveillance networks expired in March. The European Surveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs,
which was created in 2001, comprises nine European labs and one in Hong kong. Although the network has detected not yet the new virus in pigs, its coordinator Kristien Van Reeth,
Network members hope that with the pandemic highlighting the need for better pig surveillance new funding will be forthcoming.
in which a secret agent-cum-botanist hunts for a missing researcher believed to have discovered an apomixis'supergene'.
In the next few weeks, Mohan and her colleagues, including Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,
as is customary when their maize crops struggle because of drought. But this year, they have a second backstop against hunger:
and other animals for years before they emerge as a worldwide threat to human health.
It reinforces the idea that systematic surveillance, not only in humans but in other mammalian and avian hosts,
The dispute centres on four words common but differentiated responsibilities that are in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de janeiro, Brazil.
Saran's only promise is that India won't exceed the per-capita emissions of the developed world more a threat than a promise,
including the terrorist attacks on Mumbai last November and national elections in May. But the government is now moving forward,
One way to reduce this threat is to adopt a'pyramid'approach and create crops that produce multiple toxins that target the same pest.
Missouri, intends to launch a line of maize (corn) that contains eight different genes that make the crop resistant to herbicides and to attack by insects.
But this does not pose a threat for control by the current pyramided Bt cotton of this insect Tabashnik says.
Nevertheless, the results do highlight the continued threat of resistance, adds Tabashnik. Pyramids are not a panacea,
I'm someone who believes that habitat change is as big a threat to our world today
Iran denies that the reactor has a military purpose. Chemical regulation: The costs of complying with European union legislation on chemical safety (REACH) are much greater than thought,
The Nature study focused on the threat posed by deep flooding, which affects more than 25%of global rice-producing land.
Flooding is not the only threat to the world's largest diet staple. Rice blast disease destroys around 10-30%of global rice crops enough food to feed about 60 million people each year.
Some rice plants are resistant to the pernicious fungus responsible the disease, but the rice from these plants often has undesirable qualities,
Some researchers have speculated that blast-immunity genes might directly confer terrible taste, but Fukuoka and his colleagues have shown that resistance
and showed that plants with two rare deletions had around 10 times fewer blast lesions than wild-type rice,
That food crisis reminded people of the imminent threat in the 1960s and 1970s that Asia wouldn't be feed able to its population,
says Colin Chartres, director-general of the IWMI. These surface-irrigation systems have fallen into disrepair since the 1990s for a variety of reasons
The researchers report in the Journal of Zoology1 that the bats had an average maximum bite force of 10.9 newtons,
Hyenas have large bite forces that allow them access to a wider array of foods
On 25 september, the US, French and British premiers held a press conference to announce their intelligence on the site.
and is currently in a patent dispute with the University of Texas in Austin, where the material was developed.
says David Berry, a partner at venture-capital firm Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The economic downturn has made it more difficult
Fungus genome boosts fight to save North american forests: Nature Newscanadian researchers have decoded the DNA of the tree-killing fungus found in the mouths of mountain pine beetles,
says Pushpito Ghosh, director of the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Bhavnagar.
Fotis Kafatos, president of the ERC, said that the commission's response was welcome but not particularly revolutionary.
Research Scientific espionage: A former Los alamos nuclear-weapons physicist says that he is under investigation for espionage.
The researcher, P. Leonardo Mascheroni, spoke to the Associated press on 22 october, two days after he says FBI AGENTS raided his home.
The bureau confirmed an ongoing investigation into his activities. Mascheroni, who worked in the lab's X Division in the 1980s,
They have lost already the battle over Bt cotton the only GM crop grown in India
if they lose over Bt brinjal they lose the war, he says.
Argentina's forests dwindle: Nature Newsargentina, often perceived as a vast fertile territory, is losing its native forests.
Abraham announced the new numbers on biodiversity threats compiled over 20 years of laboratory and field studies last month,
at a meeting in Buenos aires of the parties to the United nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
The board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the major funding channel for controlling these diseases, last week approved US$2. 4 billion in extra funding over two years.
although no violence was reported. German education minister Annette Schavan called on the country's federal states to streamline degree requirements.
Spraying the herbicide glyphosate on coca plants is a key tool in the war on cocaine.
The GAO recommended that the US Congress should start pulling back funding for Colombia's military,
He is known as the force behind Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog1. It was the one major paper from the Hwang laboratory that was dismissed not as fraud in January 2006 (see'Verdict:
and make a revolutionary contribution to neuroscience. Lee so far has no such behavioural studies underway
while the UN's Food and agriculture organization (FAO) warned of further attacks to come (see'Halting the African armyworm').
The situation was exacerbated by an early misidentification of the caterpillar as an armyworm (a devastating crop pest that regularly attacks eastern Africa,
Apart from the initial destruction of a few tree crops like cocoa, coffee and plantain, Achaea did not pose any threat to food crops like rice,
to improve the capacity of rural communities to manage such attacks. A lot of things went wrong;
Maryland, slammed into a defunct Russian military communications satellite 800 kilometres above Siberia on 10 february 2009.
Before the collision the US Air force was tracking just a handful of vital American satellites.
In the near term, the Pentagon must warn private companies and other nations about possible collisions.
Anthropologists in conflict: A panel of anthropologists has criticized again the Human Terrain System, a controversial US Department of defense project to embed social scientists in military units in Iraq
and Afghanistan to gain cultural understanding (see Nature 455,583-588; 2008). ) In a report presented by the American Anthropological Association at its annual meeting on 3 december,
an internal committee said the programme had uneasy ethical tensions such as being aligned too closely with military intelligence gathering
and surveillance needed to ensure that the virus is gone. It's a huge task when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia,
to carry out monitoring and surveillance, he says. By the 1970s, smallpox, too, was found only in the war-torn Horn of Africa,
where the last case was isolated in Somalia in 1977. Although the rinderpest vaccine can provide lifelong protection,
director-general of the OIE, says that the holdup is because 12 countries are yet to submit their final test and surveillance results to the organization.
Even after the disease is declared extinct in the wild, it will live on in the lab. Over the next year and a half,
The dispute over the VB10 planet says Boss, is another example of how hard it is to detect extrasolar planets using astrometry from the ground.
The blast was seen first on 6 april 2007, but unlike most supernovae, which fade over a matter of weeks,
and surveillance needed to ensure that the virus is gone. It's a huge task when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia,
to carry out monitoring and surveillance, he says. Although the vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it has caused also some problems.
Because it contains the live virus diagnostic tests can't differentiate between infected and vaccinated animals,
director-general of the OIE, says that the holdup is because 12 countries have not yet submitted their final test and surveillance results to the organization.
He adds that over the next year and a half, the OIE will be drawing up an inventory
The language states that Congress disapproves of the EPA's December 2009 assessment that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health.
By declaring greenhouse gases a public health threat, the EPA is now legally bound to regulate emissions.
Environmentalists and major industry supporters are taking the Murkowski threat seriously, recognizing that even a symbolic vote against climate regulation would qualify as a major setback.
Conservationists worry about such inbreeding because it means that more animals rely on the same set of genetic defences to overcome environmental threats,
Federal authorities in the United states announced on 19 february the conclusion of their investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks,
such as analysis tracing mailed Bacillus anthracis spores back to a single-spore batch in Ivins's lab at the US ARMY Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
on the fifth anniversary of the treaty's entry into force. go. nature. com/RMWXIO 1-5 march The 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference takes place at the Woodlands,
issues brought up during the legal battle remain relevant. Much of the argument centred on the generic nature of the documents
Volunteer army catches interstellar dust grains: Nature Newsscientists say they have caught the first pieces of interstellar dust the fundamental building blocks of the Sun, Earth and the rest of the Solar system.
The discovery required an army of volunteers, including a Canadian man who spent 15 hours a day studying images online
One of the most powerful aspects of the project was distributed the army of volunteers who have searched for the tiny tracks in the aerogel.
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