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Ancient Gold Center Discovered on the Nile
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6-28-2007 10:14 AM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070619-gold-nile.html"><P class="intro"> Evidence of large-scale gold extraction in the ancient Nubian kingdom of Kush has been found along the Nile River, archaeologists will announce today (<A href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleries/gold-nile/index.html">see pictures</A>). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070619-gold-nile.html"><P> The discovery is part of a race to save as many antiquities as possible before a dam inundates a hundred-mile (160-kilometer) stretch of the Nile in northern <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_sudan.html">Sudan</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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