Earlier it stood as tall as five stories, but is now buried under 23 feet of sand. This is the second tomb found in Saqqara, which happens to be an ancient royal burial complex situated near present day Cairo. The area of the pyramid was considered  to be a place for sand. Only tomb robbers knew that there was a pyramid, who placed a shaft into the funerary chamber.

On account of the tomb robbers, one may not be able to find the mummy of the Queen. But archaeologists will be able to find inscriptions telling us about the queen. Her name Seshat means goddess of writing and history.

This might be the most complete subsidiary pyramid according to Zahi Hawaas, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.

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The Harmful Effects

The operation fails in 15% cases.

The patients start eating a lot of snacks. They eat a lot of sugary stuff that in turn leads to dumping syndrome in which the body feels dizzy, one complains of flushing, nauseating and excessive sweating.

Diet Drinks and Preservatives

All the cola companies ask you to buy their 0 calorie drinks and people buy them think that they are not consuming calories so what’s the harm in it? The harm is the ingredients of these fluids help the body acquire more fat, that is, you start gaining fat from other foods because your body becomes more receptive to it. The same goes for preservatives in foods.

What To Avoid?
Any form of carbohydrates is to be avoided. Therefore, say no to breads, pasta and potatoes.

What To Include?

Fresh vegetables and fruits are always on the list.

Save The Kids

It becomes very important to save the kids before they are headed the wrong way. Actually, choosing good food is a habit which can be inculcated in kids from a very young age. Children follow their parents, so, if they find their parents following a certain kind of diet they do the same. Remember there is another good side to it. Trying to be an example would mean you are going to stay in shape also.

Read on to know more about them:

• When it was first discovered many scientists that the discovery was some kind of a hoax
  The animal is a combination of a duck (webbed feet and bill), an otter (fur and body) and a beaver (its tail).
• Male platypuses are poisonous. With their sharp spikes on the heels of their rear feet they can give quite a toxic blow to their enemies.
• Platypuses hunt for their food under water. They have skin folds that provide protection to their eyes and ears from water. They swim a beaver.
• A platypus can stay under water without breathing for a couple of minutes.
• A platypus can sense food with its bill. They love to eat larvae, insects, shellfish and worms.
• Platypuses do not have teeth. They take in gravel with their food which helps them to chew. They have cheek pouches for this purpose.
• They lay eggs which hatch within ten days. Platypus kids are as small as lima beans. Mother platypuses take care of them for four months (which is quite long for animals) till they can swim on their own.
• In spite of their webbed feet they can run pretty well on the land.

However, scientists do not think that it is good news as this means a very unusual climate condition.
The imminent Ice Age was supposed to cover the countries of Europe, Asia and Canada in about a million years but with the kind of climate change that day may never come.

Swinging Temperatures Shaking The Future

The fear is the new high and low temperatures that disturb the ice sheets in the northern parts of the world, from forming. This constantly changing temperature will give the climate of the earth to change greatly. This has been found out by Crowley with his colleague by using their computer model.

What Could Be The Result?

There will be no glaciers in our future; however, there will be ice caps in the polar region, such a thing has never happened in the history of Geology; therefore, there are no analogies to this. Scientists are baffled at their own find and can not imagine such a condition.

Asia would also be under some three and a half kilometers of ice along with Europe. This is a new result which was not found with the earlier conditions.

The Validity of the Test

Many scientists are not willing to subscribe to this find and are preparing for further tests too be done.

Who Is She?

It is believed to be of Pharaoh Teti’s mother, Queen Seshehet. They belonged to the 6^th Egyptian dynasty.

The Lost Pyramid

The pyramid originally was almost as tall as five stories, now it is under the cover of 7 meters of sand. With the discovery of this, the total number of tombs discovered around that of Teti’s become three.

More Surprises

No one knows how many secrets still lay under the sands of Egypt because quite unexpectedly the archeologists also dug out the remains of the limestone casing of the tomb also. This discovery proves that the pyramid was almost 46 feet and 72 feet at the base.

The archeologists are baffled at the discovery of this new tomb as after the excavation of the two tombs of Teti’s two wives they did not expect another tomb here.

Puzzled Researchers

At present, archeologists are suggesting as to why Teti might have made this tomb for his mother. Most of them are of view that like all good sons Teti too respected and loved his mother. Therefore, on her death build this huge pyramid to pay a tribute to her. After all, pharaoh or no pharaoh everyone loves his mother.

As of date, the existing belief was that lunar volcanism began immediately after the formation of the moon about 4.5 billion years ago and came to an end 3 billion years ago.

Scientists can identify the age of the lunar landscape by the craters that have been blasted by meteors. The more older the region, the more craters it contains.

Less craters can be found on the far side of the lunar maria or the basalt seas, which means they are young.

The findings will force the scientists to reconsider the early geological findings of the moon.

The findings appear in the November 2008 issue of journal Science.

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Researchers in Germany conducted studies on samples of bone tissue taken from 90 mummies discovered in the ancient, Thebes in Egypt which is now Luxor.

Two of the adult mummies belonging to separate tombs contained tissues, which had ancient DNA from a malaria causing parasite.

Another team from University College, London, discovered a pair of skeletons ( a woman and a child), which happen to be 9,000 year old, off the coast of Israel. These skeletons are infected with tuberculosis and are the oldest known cases of the disease.

The examination of DNA for clues in understanding organisms that cause diseases and how they evolve can have an immense impact on modern medicine. One will be able to understand how these deadly diseases affect people.

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The details of the findings have been highlighted in the Journal of Archaeological Science, October issue.

Recently, scientists observed 32 mummified Tiwanaku bodies, which were discovered in Northern Chile’s Azapa Valley, located in the Atacama Desert.

The researchers found harmine compound in the hairs of a male adult and a year old baby, dating somewhere between A.D.800 and 1200. Harmine helps humans to absorb hallucinogens and is probably a strong antidepressant.

Harmine was probably used for medicinal and therapeutic practices, some related to childbirth and pregnancy according to study co-author, Juan Pablo Ogalde, chemical archaeologist, University of Tarapaca, Arica, Chile. It is also possible harmine may have been used in religious rituals.

Snuff kits have been found containing Vilca tree  powder. X-rays of  Tiwanaku skulls show  nasal damage, which could have been perhaps caused by frequent sniffing. Also snuffing imagery has been portrayed in Tiwanaku ceramics, stone work, wood work and textiles, which indicate snuffing rituals were part of the Tiwanaku culture.

Alexei Vranich, archaeologist, University of California, Los Angeles, who did not take part in the study said that many were attracted to the Tiwanaku religion because of the usage of these mind-Altering substances.

The only one of its kind chalk relic is of a pig or hedgehog , considered to be around 2,000 years old; it was unearthed last September close to the famous stone monument of England’s Salisbury.

This Bronze Age carved animal model was made as a plaything or in remembrance of a stillborn baby or an infant who died very young, the archaeologist believes.

The finding was made during a project of the Stonehenge Riverside, a 7-year archaeological exploration of this Stonehenge area. The project is also backed by the National Geographic Society.

The burial was exposed during the excavation of an antique palisade.

Proofs of toys during the period of British history are exceedingly limited.

The infant’s grave, uncertainly dated between 800 B.C - 20 B.C., also  includes a ceramic vessel, which might have contained foodstuff intended meant for the child’s crossing to his afterlife according to the team.

The dig of the post also exposed the corpse of another infant along with the carcass of a goat or sheep.

A mound of pebbles placed over the head of the animal, point to a sacrificial burial.

It is possible that the 2 infants are human sacrifices, than likely to have died naturally. However, there was also a high incidence of child mortality at that time so natural death can not be ruled out completely.

At present, archeologists are fighting over what the animal is — a pig or a hedgehog.

What is this unknown gas?

The answer to the question is Nitrogen trifluoride.

Nitrogen trifluoride is 1of the numerous gases used during the making up of some computers and TV screens; it is also used in the manufacture of thin-film photovoltaic cells.

So, once again we have the same old dilemma for us. The production of the very object meant to resolve the crisis, is in reality adding up to this crisis.

Many manufacturers have been using Nitrogen triflouride as a substitute for perfluorocarbons, which is another sort of strong greenhouse gas.  Then it was considered that merely 2 % of nitrogen trifluoride being used actually escapes into atmosphere.

Nitrogen trifluoride is almost 17,000 times more potent at heating up the atmosphere than CO2, carbon dioxide.  Though, this gas emission at present adds up to only 0.15 % of total effects of global warming produced by humans. It is predicted that the quantity of the gas in our atmosphere is rising by 11 % per year.

Carbon Dioxide, CO2, still remains the chief gas causal of global warming.

By means of new technology, research teams in California sponsered by Nasa, revealed that thousands additional metric tons of this chemical exists in our atmosphere than what was formerly thought.

As this gas is used very frequently, its potential harmful effects are not well known, researchers now recommend to include nitrogen trifluoride in the greenhouse gases controlled by Kyoto Protocol.