The National Museum of Afghanistan has seen the return of 843 heritage objects including items recovered in 3 separate seizures of smuggled artefacts by the UK Border Force and another group from other investigations by the Art and Antiques Unit of the Metropolitan Police.
The precious cargo, weighing just over two tonnes, left RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire on the 12 July 2012 after the British Museum and the Royal Air Force worked together to make the historic repatriation possible. Travelling onboard a C17 transport aircraft, the material was first transported to Camp Bastion, the main military base in Helmand. After a short stop, it took off again on the second leg of the journey, on a C130 Hercules aircraft, to Kabul. |  |
Study finds that avoiding lies can improve your health
ORLANDO – Honesty may actually help your health, suggests a study presented Saturday to psychology professionals that found telling fewer lies benefits you physically and mentally.
For this "honesty experiment," 110 individuals, ages 18-71, participated over a 10-week period. Each week, they came to a laboratory to complete health and relationship measures and to take a polygraph test assessing the number of major lies and white lies they had told that week. "When they went up in their lies, their health went down," says lead author Anita Kelly, a psychology professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. "When their lies went down, their health improved." |  |
Egypt's President Morsi says tourists will have security
CAIRO: Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi was on a visit to popular tourist destination and historical site Luxor in southern Egypt on Friday, where he pledged that toursists to Egypt would have complete security.
His comments come as Egypt hopes to reboot tourism, which has dropped off considerably since 2011's uprising ousted former President Hosni Mubarak. "After the revolution, Egyptians are intent on assuring security for all visitors," the president said on a visit to Luxor in southern Egypt, quoted by state news agency MENA. "Egypt is safer than before and open to all, and Luxor will remain the capital of tourism and antiquities," he said of the town. |  |
If You See This Google Warning, Act Fast: Big Brother is Watching
Big Brother is watching. No kidding. And the warning is coming from none other than Google, which says government spies may be spying on you. Some believe the Google announcement may be related to the recent discovery of the data-mining virus named "Flame." In a June 3 New York Times article, Andrew Kramer and Nicole Perlroth write:
"When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe's largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create. He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed by the United States and Israel... |  |
A new topographical mapping method, based on fractals, is revealing new information about ancient activity at pyramid sites in Egypt
Some 4500 years ago King Senefru founded the 4th Dynasty and set off building a pyramid to preserve his body for the afterlife and eternity. After a failed attempt, Senefru succeeded in building the first ever complete pyramid in Dahshour area, 40 kilometres south of Cairo. Nature subsequently erased all traces of ancient human activity in Dahshour; even archaeological excavations revealed very little of what went on at the Dahshour site during the construction of the Bent and Red pyramids. |  |
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