[SunkenCiv]

a fine bunch o' topics from the "ancientegypt", "egypt", and "cleopatra" keywords:

• Disaster That Struck The Ancients
• The Revision of Ancient History -- A Perspective
• Statue Find 'A Revelation' (Phoenician 'Baal Addir')
• Ancient Warrior Grave Unearthed In Lebanese Port (Sidon)
• (On TV Tonight) Egyptian Pyramid Mysteries To Be Explored Live On TV
• Ancient Undersea Walls Discovered Off Penghu (Taiwan) Coast
• Hey Dude! Pass the tana leaves.
• The Secret Doors Inside the Great Pyramid
• Hungry dogs find 2,500-year-old mummy
• Oldest Swords Found In Turkey (3,300BC)
• U.S. Marching in the Footsteps of Abraham
• Babil, Iraq (Karbala, Al Hillah, vicinity)-- the Ancient City of Babylon
• Warriors Of Clay
• Protecting Iraq's Ancient Treasures: Pentagon has "No Strike" List
• History explains stiff Iraqi resistance at Karbala Gap
• Tanzania, Ethiopia origin for humans
• Rock art clue to nomad ancestors of Egyptian pyramid builders
• Rock Art Clue To Nomad Ancestors Of Egyptian Pyramid Builders.
• Saddam Drained The Garden Of Eden
• Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
• Genetic evidence links Jews to their ancient tribe
• Baseball: ancient Egypt's favourite ball game (New discoveries in Egypt!)
• Zahi Hawass searches for the "Hidden" Chamber (Update on the "door" found in the Great Pyramid!)
• Scientist Defends Account Of Exodus
• Archaeology: Dates Boost Conventional Wisdom About Solomon's Splendor
• Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure
• War & Heritage: Is Ancient Iraq Being Protected? (Museums may not have been looted)
• A judgment about Solomon Evidence supports Hebrew kingdoms in biblical times
• The trashing of civilisation
• Large traces of Iraqi, world history wiped out
• Dawn Of American Religion Found (2,250 BC)
• Our Western Mob
• Ur: From Dawn of Civilization to 21st Century War
• Excavations Strengthen Dating To Kings David & Solomon
• Avebury Stone Is Found to Rival Stonehenge
• 'Earliest Writing' Found In China
• First Declaration of Human Rights (History)
• Missing: 5,000 years of history
• Ancient dung reveals a picture of the past
• Gladiators return to march in Rome
• Enough Said [Isaac and Ishmael]
• Monk who gave cappuccino its name beatified
• Iraq: Gilgamesh tomb believed found
• Gilgamesh tomb believed found!
• Atlanta Sends Mummy Home
• Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Italy
• The Buried Palace Of Guar
• Marsh Arabs, Modern Sumerians
• Who Ruled Palestine? (Historical Timeline from Roman Conquest to 1850)
• Moses' Egyptian Name
• Mammoth Herds 'Roamed Fertile Bering Strait In Ice Age'
• Found: Queen Nefertiti's Mummy
• Tablets That May Reveal El Nino Secrets Are Feared Lost In Iraq
• Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
• Iranians going back to pre-Islamic Days
• The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?
• Iran salutes pre-Islamic history
• Nefertiti mummy 'found in Egypt'
• Missing evolution link surfaces in Africa
• Pharaoh's chariots found in the Red Sea? ( Holy Moses! )
• Was 0 A Good Year?
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia -- Home To First Civilization On Earth
• Inca May Have Used Knot Computer Code To Bind Empire
• Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History
• Moralists without morals
• The vagina monoliths: Stonehenge was ancient sex symbol
• After 500 years, Granada's Muslims get their mosque
• Egypt to Put Ancient Mummified Pets on Show
• First Mosque Opens in Spain in 500+ Years
• Germans Are From Mars, Italians Are From Venus
• New mosque signals 'return of Islam' to Spain
• Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea
• Scientists hunt for evidence of Noah's flood in Black Sea
• Stuffed Dormice A Roman Favourite
• Similarities Between the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and the United States
• 'Roman cosmetics' found at ancient dig
• Who are the Zoroastrians?
• Archaeologists Uncover 12,000-Year-Old Settlement (Israel)
• Onward Christian soldiers (Janissaries. Christian boys were forced to fight for Islam)
• Caligula's Roman Palace Discovered
• Lake Bonneville Flood
• Who Built The Pyramids?
• A Human Migration Fueled By Dung?
• Meet The Ancestors
• Egyptian Jurists Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation...of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt
• The Real Ten Commandments: Solon vs. Moses
• USO Canteen FReeper Style -- Ancient Roman Military: Julius Caesar
• Roman dig backs ancient writers' portrait of megalomaniac Caligula
• DNA Study To Settle Ancient Mystery About Mingling Of Inuit, Vikings
• Hospitals Owe Debt To Islam
• Supermarket molluscs reveal Roman secret
• Stanford, Oxford archaeologists find evidence that depraved tyrant annexed sacred temple
• Appalachian Sands Covered North America
• Was the Islam of Old Spain Truly Tolerant? (The Religion of Peace™ and its idea of inclusiveness)
• British, Egyptian Archaeologists Map Out Regions Beneath Pyramids
• Sacred Precincts: A Tartessian Sanctuary In Ancient Spain
• Egypt's 'Ramses' mummy returned (Ramses I)
• Bloody King Linked To Saxon Beach Find (Caedwalla)
• Drought That Destroyed A Civilisation
• The Real History of the Crusades
• Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind December 25
• New find, old tomb, and peeks at early Christians
• Were the Magi who visited Jesus -- Persian?
• Assyrians in Turkey: Disappearance of a Culture?
• How the Greeks Gave Form to the West
• Roman soldier's life unfurls: Princeton grad helps bring ancient writings to light
• Study: Red Sea Parting Possible!
• Expert: Cleopatra Seduces Antony On Vase
• French Archaeologists Find Marcus Aurelius 'Head' (Petra)
• Mel Gibson To Produce 'Boudicca' Film Epic
• The Real Spartacus
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Ancient Greeks -- Were they like us at all?
• History Channel to air Ancient Battles [Persians-Greeks-Romans -- starts 7/23]
• Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
• Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old)
• Ancient Persian fleet surrenders it's mysteries
• The First Persian War -- Greek Wars
• Chinese Lady Dai Leaves Egyptian Mummies For Dead
• Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s BC
• Photo Series: Persepolis, Iran -- Capital of Persian Empire [History]
• 2,500-year-old charter of rights to revisit Iran [Cyrus the Great]
• Teasing The Sun (Nefertiti)
• Egyptians Spared No Expense on Animal Mummies
• Egypt Hopes to Solve Riddle of Tutankhamun Death
• Tomb May Shed Light On 10th Plague
• King Tut Exhibit Could Prove to Be Gold Mine (Coming to the USA in 2005 for 27 month/4 city tour)
• Mel Gibson and the Maccabees
• Egyptian president tours Persian Gulf
• Excavators Discover 20 Mummies in Egypt
• I Have Solved The Riddle Of The Sphinx, Says Frenchman
• Mystery Of 'Chirping' Pyramid Decoded
• 5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
• Human Sacrifice Was Common In Burnt City (Iran)
• Terror Suspect Alleges Torture in Egyptian Prison
• Poor Ships Saved Japan From Mongolian Army
• Scientists Find Fossil Proof Of Egypt's Ancient Climate
• Mummy Tar In Ancient Egypt
• Coptic Trove
• Archaeology: Ancient Alexandria Emerges, By Land and By Sea
• King Tut Not Murdered, but Leg Fracture May Have Caused Infection, Tests Show
• Cleopatra seduced the Romans with her irresistible . . . mind
• Cleopatra Was A Blonde -- (terrific brief history of Egypt's rich past; optimistic democratic future)
• Nefertiti's 'Love Affair' With Moses to Hit the Silver Screen
• Did Nefertiti have 'love affair' with Moses?
• Mummies Undergo CT Scans at Calif. Museum
• CT Scans Show What King Tut Looked Like
• The "Egyptian Watergate"
• Tutankhamun died of gangrene
• The King of Egyptology
• Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt
• Searching For The Queen Of Sheba
• Carthage Tries To Live Down Image As Site Of Infanticide
• Egyptian Archaeologists Announce 'Beautiful' Mummy Found
• King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists
• Plagued by curse of the Pharaoh
• King Tut treasure back in U.S. as Egypt seeks gold -Bubba seeks exibit in Arkansas
• Ancient Egyptian Princess Head from 14th Century B.C. Listed on eBay
• Unearthing the Treasures of the Mediterranean
• Cleopatra Found Depicted In Drag
• Egyptomania (originally 'Egyptomania')
• Rosetta Stone
• Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color
• The complete and utter history of the universe parts 1 & 2.
• Dwarfs commanded respect in ancient Egypt
• 90 years later, Peru battles Yale over Incan artifacts
• Ancient Furnace Sparks Archaeological Interest
• Rare Egyptian sculpture [record price set for ancient sculpture]
• Archeologists Find Ancient Ship Remains (cargo carriers between Pharaonic Egypt and Punt)
• Ancient Egyptian royal head puzzles archaeologists
• Cruise Ship, 1300 Passengers, Disappears in Red Sea (Egyptian authorities)
• Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
• Egypt Ruler Moved To Pull Down Cheops Pyramid For Noble Reasons
• Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
• Egypt's Sphinx to get facelift
• Hatshepsut mummy found
• Amarna Princess a forgery [Egyptian statue in forgery claim]
• Hatshepsut mummy found (Another glimpse at Islamic museum curatorship)
• Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep
• Murder, Mayhem and Mystery on Display [Ancient Alexandria]
• Ancient Tombs Sheds New Light On Egyptian Colonialism
• Mystery tomb could hold Tutankhamen's widow
• Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says
• Egypt's Ramses Gets a New Home Among Pyramids
• American Drugs In Egyptian Mummies
• Was An Ancient Egyptian City Found In the Grand Canyon?
• Mysterious Egyptian Glass Formed By Meteorite Strike, Study Says
• 300 -- Frank Miller's Story
• Japanese team finds ancient Egyptian coffins (from the Middle Kingdom, 2 are ~4000 years old)
• Coin Shows Cleopatra's Ugly Truth
• Ancient coin contradicts legend of Cleopatra's beauty (Oooof! She looked like Ed Koch)
• Heads she's homely; tails he's ugly
• German Indologist claims to have decoded Indus scripts
• Ancient Bulgarian Sanctuaries "Older" Than Egyptian Pyramids
• King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]
• Ancient Egyptian City Spotted From Space
• The significance of kitchens for Ancient Egyptians
• Ancient gold unearthed in Sudan
• Mummy of Egyptian queen Hatshepsut may have been found (in a humble tomb in the Valley of the Kings)
• Mystery of Tut's Father: New Clues on Unidentified Mummy
• Massive Egyptian Fort Discovered
• Beyond Mesopotamia: A Radical New View Of Human Civilization Reported In Science
• Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
• Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief
• Tutankhamun's True Face To Be Revealed
• Major Archaeological Find In Puerto Rico
• Face of King Tut unshrouded to public
• Excavations Reveal Ancient Egyptians Were Master Dam Builders
• Ancient Egyptian Glassmaking Recreated
• Months after mummy claim, DNA science still lags [Hatshepsut]
• Is She Or Isn't She? Mummy Lab Working To ID Pharaoh Queen
• Sarkozy takes new love to ancient Egypt for Christmas
• Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert
• Justinian 30, Factionists 10: The Nika Rebellion of AD 531 [Superbowl Warm-up]
• Rare Egyptian "Warrior" Tomb Found
• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism
• How Wild Asses Became Donkeys Of The Pharaohs
• Study Shows Life Was Tough For Ancient Egyptians
• Egypt: Tomb Of Cleopatra And Lover To Be Uncovered
• Fury as Museum Bosses Cover Up Naked Egyptian Mummies to Protect 'Sensitivities' of Visitors
• 'Indiana Jones'-Like Archeologist Says He's Found Cleopatra's Tomb
• Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaoh (Menkauhor, obscure ruler over 4000 years ago)
• Coils Of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found In Cave
• Egypt archaeologists find ancient painted coffins
• Archaeology and the Book of Exodus: Exit From Egypt
• New life given to ancient Egyptian texts stored at Stanford for decades
• Volunteers uncovers 58th Mammoth at the Mammoth Site (Hot Springs, SD)
• Unknown Writing System Uncovered On Ancient Olmec Tablet
• Seal of King Zedekiah's minister found in J'lem dig
• Sea unearths secret Nazi bunkers that lay hidden for more than 50 years
• In search of Western civilisation's lost classics
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period
• Great Britain: Thames reveals forgotten wrecks ( 7 shipwrecks discovered, up to 350 years old)
• Dead Sea Scrolls to Hit the Internet
• Mummy discovered in Peruvian city
• Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital
• Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?
• Nails around Tahluj ancient skeletons puzzle archaeologists [Iran]
• U.S. fights fired Muslim scientist's lawsuit
• Namibia: Race against time to save ancient Portuguese shipwreck
• History detective
• Ground Breaking Dig Backs Jesus' Divinity
• Peruvian archaeologists have made the most exciting find in the country for a generation
• PHOTOS: Unusual Rock Art Trove Found in Australia
• Archeologists 'find King Solomon's mines'
• Discovery of Fire Pushed Back 500,000 Years
• Written sources for Christianity outside the Bible (Interesting Stuff for all Christians)
• Archeologist finds 3,000-year old Hebrew text
• No burial for 10,000-year-old bones: U of California denies request for repatriation of remains
• The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn't Care to Listen To
• 6,500-year-old village found in Greece
• How the Great Sphinx of Giza may have started out with the face of a lion
• Did Noah's Flood start in the Carmel?
• The face of Cleopatra: Scientists recreate the first true image of the legendary beauty
• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600
• Cavalry Soldiers unearth years of ancient Iraqi history
• Germans Save Egyptian Ship From Somali Pirates
• Mystery surrounds north Ga. ruins [Fort Mountain State Park]
• Top 8 of 2008: Archaeological Discoveries Related to the Bible
• Huge Iron Age haul of coins found
• Archaeologists Discover Rare Figurine in Jerusalem
• Archaeologists Keeping Eye on Blanka Tunnel
• France Says it Owns Legendary Vessel (Court Case Over 17th Century Ship in Lake Michigan)
• Archaeologist to Discuss Life on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Plantation
• Unearthing Coast's history (Mississippi)
• Images of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy revealed by scanner
• The Underwater Archaeologist
• Sub's Fate is a Cold Case (Civil War Confederate Submarime Mystery)
• 2000-Yr-Old Shiva Shrine Found
• CU professor finds evidence of extinct camels in Boulder
• Prints Are Evidence of Modern Foot in Prehumans
• 13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home
• Do These Mysterious Stones Mark The Site Of The Garden Of Eden?
• Desert Secret Cracked: Ancient Hunting Techniques Revealed
• Contradictions: Underneath a Solid Sky (Does Genesis 1 teach the sky was solid?)
• Myanmar finds more evidences on Bronze Age, Iron Age
• Sail Like An Egyptian
• George Hedges dies at 57; celebrity lawyer was also a noted archaeologist
• Found: the sister Cleopatra killed
• Skeleton of Cleopatra's Murdered Sister Identified
• Found: the Sister Cleopatra Killed
• Obituary: William "Bill" Davidson [86, Detroit Pistons owner, Archaeology buff]
• Egypt Set to Open Pyramid for First Time to Tourists
• Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
• "Beauty of the Nile" May Have Had Ancient Makeover
• Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? (Archeological find in Turkey)
• Dig 'may reveal' Cleopatra's tomb
• Egyptians hope to find Cleopatra's tomb

[Justa]

Fascinating. Great find.

Here’s the culprit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al_Binni_lake

If you look around the area there are other similar depressions. The impact craters appear to indicate the objects came from the NE, perhaps an asteroid which broke-up prior to impact?