As it's a slow news day, I'm sneaking in this report from Oxford Today's Science Findings page (Hilary Issue 2006), originally reported in the academic journal Science. Ths isn't Egyptology, or even archaeology, but palaeontology: "Fossil fragments from two extinct species discovered recently in Egypt have helped to fill in the story of humanity's shared evolutionary history with apes and monkeys." Teeth, jaws and other facial bones from a Faiyum (SW of Cairo) site dating back 37 million years are helping to fill a gap in the fossil record between 45 million and 35 million years ago. The finds have suggested to the palaeontologists working on the finds, including Dr Erik Seiffert, that anthropoid origins are more complex than previously suspected.
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