“Obama Checks Out Sphinx And Pyramids” and other links…
CBS News: “Serving as Mr. Obama’s guide in Giza was Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. He led the way in and around the pyramids and the Sphinx, including a visit to the Tomb of Qar, who Hawass described as a well-known priest, scholar and judge in ancient Egypt. On the wall were hieroglyphs of Qar, primitive images engraved in the stone. He was a thin man man with big ears. …‘That looks like me!’ exclaimed President Obama. ‘Look at those ears.’” I assumed that Obama would avoid by galactic units placing his African self anywhere near the history of ancient Egypt while on the “world stage.” This little joke proves me wrong. It’s almost always a pleasant experience for me to be so wrong these days… However, CBS News will not let Obama get away with even this little joking relation with Africa’s ancient past in the Nile Valley. They seemed driven to imply disagreement with Obama’s observations and went directly into science-fiction to escape… Remember, I am not one to need “the world” to agree with me about Africa’s ancient, core relationship with ancient Egypt. I just need my children to understand and evaluate with discipline (not joking) where my view is coming from…
“Fathers of Invention: What Muslims Gave the Scientific World”
wired.com: “Historian Fuat Sezgin spent 60 years tracking down ancient manuscripts and commissioning craftspeople to reproduce hundreds of instruments, from clocks to syringes. His replicas on display at the Islamic Science and Technology History Museum in Istanbul remind us that the culture now often associated with an antiscience ideology was once a catalyst for innovation. ‘Modern Muslims do not know this great history,’ Sezgin says, ‘so they sometimes have a complex toward modern science.’ His work exposes a geeky heritage to be proud of. Here are a few of those bright ideas from the so-called Dark Ages.”
“Tourist killed, 22 people wounded in Cairo bombing”
ABC News: “A bomb at a landmark Cairo bazaar Sunday killed a French tourist and wounded 22 people, most of them holidaymakers, in the first deadly violence against Westerners in Egypt since 2006. …The head of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University—Sunni Islam’s highest religious authority—condemned the bombing in a statement carried by the state MENA news agency.”