这个墓群是用砖砌起来的，位于金字塔的背阴面。通过对该墓群的发掘，考古学家可以更好地了解这些建造者当时的生活和饮食状况。考古学家声称，此墓群建造在金字塔的旁边，证明了当时建造金字塔的工人并不是当时社会最底层的奴隶。因为如果他们是奴隶的话，他们的墓群将不可能建造在金字塔附近。
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The first match in the Africa cup of nations is underway after footballers’ spectators held a period of silence as a mark of respect for the three Togo team members killed in an attack on their bus. The hosts Angola have been playing Mali in the opening game. As it were doing so, the Togolese national squad left Angola by plane. Our southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports.
Togo’s presidential plane was sent to take the national squad home after their bus was ambushed on Friday by separatist militants. The incident overshadowed what was meant to be a moment of glory for African football instead Angola security arrangements have been cast into doubt. Despite the desire by the players to state the tournament as a mark of respect for those who died, Togo’s prime minister, Gilbert Houngbo insisted that it would be reckless to let them remain. The opening ceremony finally underway was marked by a minute silence to honor the dead.
A member of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi has been cleared of charges that he tortured a former business associate. The charges came after a video emerged appearing to show the incident that a lawyer acting for Sheikhs Issa bin Zayed al-Nahayan said his client was not responsible for the torture. Julie reports from Dubai.
The incident concerned was filmed in 2004 and the tape showed one man viciously beating another with weeps, electric cattle prods and a wooden plant with nails. The first man then poured salt in his victim’s wounds and ran over him with a four wheel drive vehicle. The police apparently assisted in the attack. In court, Sheikh Issa’s defense, led by one of Dubai’s most prominent lawyers stated that the Sheikh was under the influence of proscription drugs that meant he was unaware of his actions and had no recollection of them.
A parliamentary committee in Iran has made a rare official criticism of the treatment of opposition detainees held after last year’s disputed presidential coop. in a report it said three detainees died at the notorious prison because of their treatment. Here is our Tehran correspondent, Jon Leyne.
The Iranian parliamentary report is heavily critical of the rare position detainees were sent to Kahrizak detention centre in Tehran despite the lack of space and facilities there. The report says that 147 of them were capped in one room with poor food, excessive heat and poor ventilation. It says that three of them died because of the bad conditions and as a result of physical attacks. The parliamentary committee blames a former Tehran prosecutor who had reputation as a hardliner for insisting the detainees be sent there despite being warned of bad conditions.
Pope Benedict has called for respect for migrants saying that they have rights and the equally loved by God. He was speaking after violent clashes between African farm workers and local residence in Calabria, southern Italy. Some 70 people were injured in the disturbances.
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The party of a social democrat candidate in Croatia’s presidential election has claimed victory on national television. Ivo Josipovic Appears to be on course to be declared winner. Most exit polls and this runoff vote showed him taking a commanding lead around 30 points over his opponent, the mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic.
The Israeli armed forces say they have killed a senior field commander in Gaza belonging to the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. They identified him as Awad Nasir. Palestinian medical workers said he was among three members of Islamic Jihad killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Earlier the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that there will be what he called a powerful response to rockets and motor attacks launched from Gaza against Israel.
Republicans in the United States have demanded the resignation of the Democratic senate majority leader Harry Reid of a racial comment he made about president Obama. The head of the republican national committee, Michael Steele, said the remark was inappropriate and reflected an altitude to race that was out of step with modern America. Mr Obama has accepted an apology from Senator Reid who’d been his ally on health care reform.
Egyptian archaeologist say they’ve discovered tombs of workers who held built the country’s largest pyramid. As Kim Adams reports to discovery sheds light on how they lived.
The tombs made from bricks of dried mud dated back forward a half thousand years. According to Egypt’s head of antiquities Zahi Hawass, they reviewed the far from being slaves those who toyed on the great pyramid were free and enjoyed relatively good working conditions. He says their location, so close to the pyramid which itself as whom for their king proves they weren’t of the slave class. And he says the evidence found in the site show that ten thousand or so slaves were given 21 cattle and 23 sheep every day.
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