Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Sinai pumice linked to ancient eruption

Sinai pumice linked to ancient eruption (AP)

Head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass, right, speaks to the media at the unveiling of an 18th dynasty military fort with four rectangular towers built of mud brick, at the site of the ancient Egyptian fortress of Tharo in the northern Sinai desert near Tell Heboua, Egypt Monday, April 2, 2007. The discovery at the military fort of lava remains from the Santorini volcano, which erupted in the Mediterranean sea in the 17th century B.C., is claimed to be some of the first evidence that the volcano's eruption reached the Sinai. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Egyptian archaeologists showed off white pumice Monday that they theorize was swept onto the northern Sinai desert by a tsunami triggered by the ancient volcanic eruption on Santorini island 530 miles away.


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