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Builders clearing land for a housing project in Colombia have uncovered an ancient burial site containing nearly a thousand tombs linked to two little-known civilizations. The site covers some 12 acres (5 hectares) in the impoverished Usme district in southeast Bogotá and includes one set of remains that some researchers believe could be a victim of human sacrifice. The possible victim is a young woman who seems to have been buried alive, said Ana Maria Groot, one of the lead anthropologists from the National University of Colombia working at the site. "Her mouth is open as if in terror, and her hands seem contracted as if she had tried grabbing hold of something," Groot said. Another tomb contains the remains of a man with a curved tibia, or shinbone, possible evidence that the man was a shaman, she added. Spanish observers in the 1500s wrote of indigenous shamans spending long periods in caves with no exposure to sunlight. A lack of sunlight would produce a shortage of vitamin D, causing curving of the bones, explained Groot's colleague, Virgilio Becerra. Aside from such unusual finds, the site is unique for its age and length of occupation, the anthropologists say. The tombs range in date from around the first century to the 16th century A.D., based on analysis of pottery found with the remains...
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The ancient Egyptian ruler Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead. So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference Friday at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the deaths of historic figures. The pharaoh's feminine mystique was the result of a genetic mutation that caused his body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed, Dr. Irwin Braverman believes. Akhenaten's head was misshapen because of a condition in which skull bones fuse at an early age, he added. "[He had] an androgynous appearance. He had a female physique with wide hips and breasts, but he was male and he was fertile and he had six daughters," Braverman said. "But nevertheless, he looked like he had a female physique." Braverman, who sizes up the health of individuals based on portraits, teaches a class at Yale's medical school that uses paintings from the university's Center for British Art to teach observation skills to first-year students...
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Scientists are claiming an amazing breakthrough - regrowing a man's severed finger with the aid of an experimental powder. Four weeks after Lee Spievack sliced more than 1cm off the top of one of his fingers, he said it had grown back to its original length. Four months later it looked like any other finger, complete with "great feeling", a fingernail and fingerprint. The secret to the astonishing regrowth is said to be the powder described by Mr Spievack, a Cincinnati model shop salesman, as "pixie dust". More properly known as extra-cellular matrix, it is bursting with collagen, the protein that gives skin its strength and elasticity, and is made from dried pig's bladder. It was developed to regenerate damaged ligaments in horses. "The second time I put it on I could already see growth," said Mr Spievack, 69. "Each day it was up further. "Finally it closed up and was a finger. It took about four weeks before it was sealed." Mr Spievack damaged his finger in the propeller of a model plane three years ago. He turned down a skin graft in favour of the "pixie dust" recommended by his brother, a former surgeon and the founder of the firm that makes the powder...
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Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have launched a legal action to demand the exclusive right to call themselves Lesbians. The inhabitants of the island are attempting to ban the Greek Gay and Lesbian Union from bearing the name "lesbian". Residents of Lesbos now suffer "psychological and moral rape" from the "seizure" of their island's name by gays, according to the complaint by Dimitris Lambrou, a local activist. He has set out his argument in "The Misfortune of Being Lesbian", published on his website, reports the Daily Telegraph. Mr Lambrou, who has the support of a member of a nationalist pagan association, said that the case was likely to come before a court in Athens in June. But Evangelia Vlam, a spokesman for Olke, dismissed the claim. "This affair is totally ridiculous," she said. "But if we are summoned by the courts, we will be heard." Lesbos is synonymous with the love verses of the poet Sappho, who expressed her love of other women in poetry written in the early sixth century BC...
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A judge has ordered that 416 children taken from a Texas ranch run by a polygamous sect will undergo genetic testing. State District Judge Barbara Walther ruled today that the children would remain in state care, the Associated Press reports. She also ordered that the children and their parents undergo genetic testing after difficulties determining relationships among the group. Authorities said sect members gave conflicting or evasive answers when asked to explain the links between other members. The ranch, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was raided earlier this month after a 16-year-old girl phoned the authorities saying her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her. It is reported that the girl who phoned in the tip-off is yet to be positively identified. "This is but the beginning," Judge Walther said. The court will hear each of the child's cases individually over the next several weeks. The state of Texas has argued the children should remain in care because the girls are at risk of being sexually preyed upon and the boys are at risk of growing up to be predators...
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