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Egyptian Skeletons Show Signs of Being Overworked
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<blockquote data-quote="TnWatchdog" data-source="post: 66859" data-attributes="member: 3077"><p><span style="font-size: 22px">Skeletons That Spotlight Plight Of Ancient Commoners</span></p><p>Posted: 03/19/2013 11:28 am EDT</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1044952/thumbs/r-SKELETON-large570.jpg?6" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer</p><p>Published: 03/18/2013 12:58 PM EDT</p><p> </p><p>While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests.</p><p>An analysis of more than 150 skeletons from a 3,300-year-old cemetery at the ancient <a href="http://www.livescience.com/2147-ancient-egyptian-industrial-complex-revealed.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">Egyptian city of Amarna</span></a> reveals fractures, wear and tear from heavy lifting, and rampant malnutrition amongst the city's commoners.</p><p>The discovery, detailed in the March issue of the journal Antiquity, could shed light on how the non-elites of ancient Egyptian society lived.</p><p><strong>Overnight city</strong></p><p>For a brief, 17-year period, the center of Egypt was Amarna, a small city on the banks of the Nile, about 218 miles (350 kilometers) south of Cairo.</p><p>The pharaoh Akhenaten relocated his capital city to Amarna to build a pure, uncontaminated <a href="http://www.livescience.com/20204-shrines-biblical-kings-excavated.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">cult of worship</span></a> dedicated to the sun god Aten. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/20404-gallery-sun-gods-goddesses.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">Gallery: Sun Gods and Goddesses</span></a>]</p><p>In a few years, temples, court buildings and housing complexes sprung up. At one time, 20,000 to 30,000 court officials, soldiers, builders and servants lived in the city.</p><p>But after Akhenaten's death, the next pharaoh, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/27106-king-tut-parents-were-cousins.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">Tutankhamun</span></a>, promptly rolled up the experiment. The city, which lacked good agricultural land, was soon abandoned.</p><p>Because the Egyptians occupied Amarna for such a short time, the city provides archaeologists with an unprecedented insight into what people's lives looked like at a specific moment in history, said study co-author Anna Stevens, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge.</p><p><strong>Hard life</strong></p><p>About 10 years ago, a surveyor investigating a region in the desert near Amarna discovered an <a href="http://www.livescience.com/23298-carthage-graveyard-not-child-sacrifice.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">ancient cemetery</span></a>. The site contained hundreds of skeletons and skeletal fragments from lower-class Egyptians. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/27952-skeletal-finds-ancient-egyptian-cemetery.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0086c6">See Photos of the Ancient Egyptian Cemetery</span></a>]</p><p><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1043784/thumbs/o-EXCAVATINGAMARNA-570.jpg?11" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><em>Archaeologists have unearthed graves with hundreds of skeletons at the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna.</em></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #ffff00">Click link below for full article...</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #339966"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/egyptian-cemetery-amarna-skeletons-ancient-commoners_n_2902433.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing12%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D286104" target="_blank"><span style="color: #339966"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">Disease three-quarters of adults contracted</span></u></span></a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TnWatchdog, post: 66859, member: 3077"] [SIZE=6]Skeletons That Spotlight Plight Of Ancient Commoners[/SIZE] Posted: 03/19/2013 11:28 am EDT [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1044952/thumbs/r-SKELETON-large570.jpg?6[/IMG] Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/18/2013 12:58 PM EDT While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests. An analysis of more than 150 skeletons from a 3,300-year-old cemetery at the ancient [URL='http://www.livescience.com/2147-ancient-egyptian-industrial-complex-revealed.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]Egyptian city of Amarna[/COLOR][/URL] reveals fractures, wear and tear from heavy lifting, and rampant malnutrition amongst the city's commoners. The discovery, detailed in the March issue of the journal Antiquity, could shed light on how the non-elites of ancient Egyptian society lived. [B]Overnight city[/B] For a brief, 17-year period, the center of Egypt was Amarna, a small city on the banks of the Nile, about 218 miles (350 kilometers) south of Cairo. The pharaoh Akhenaten relocated his capital city to Amarna to build a pure, uncontaminated [URL='http://www.livescience.com/20204-shrines-biblical-kings-excavated.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]cult of worship[/COLOR][/URL] dedicated to the sun god Aten. [[URL='http://www.livescience.com/20404-gallery-sun-gods-goddesses.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]Gallery: Sun Gods and Goddesses[/COLOR][/URL]] In a few years, temples, court buildings and housing complexes sprung up. At one time, 20,000 to 30,000 court officials, soldiers, builders and servants lived in the city. But after Akhenaten's death, the next pharaoh, [URL='http://www.livescience.com/27106-king-tut-parents-were-cousins.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]Tutankhamun[/COLOR][/URL], promptly rolled up the experiment. The city, which lacked good agricultural land, was soon abandoned. Because the Egyptians occupied Amarna for such a short time, the city provides archaeologists with an unprecedented insight into what people's lives looked like at a specific moment in history, said study co-author Anna Stevens, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge. [B]Hard life[/B] About 10 years ago, a surveyor investigating a region in the desert near Amarna discovered an [URL='http://www.livescience.com/23298-carthage-graveyard-not-child-sacrifice.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]ancient cemetery[/COLOR][/URL]. The site contained hundreds of skeletons and skeletal fragments from lower-class Egyptians. [[URL='http://www.livescience.com/27952-skeletal-finds-ancient-egyptian-cemetery.html'][COLOR=#0086c6]See Photos of the Ancient Egyptian Cemetery[/COLOR][/URL]] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1043784/thumbs/o-EXCAVATINGAMARNA-570.jpg?11[/IMG][I]Archaeologists have unearthed graves with hundreds of skeletons at the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna.[/I] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#ffff00]Click link below for full article...[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#339966][URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/egyptian-cemetery-amarna-skeletons-ancient-commoners_n_2902433.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing12%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D286104'][COLOR=#339966][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Disease three-quarters of adults contracted[/COLOR][/U][/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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