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Cool Stuff: Archaeologists Unearth Base of Pyramid

Archaeologists have discovered the base of a small, 4,500-year-old pyramid believed to have been built for a Pharaonic queen in the desert outside Cairo, the head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council said Sunday.

The pyramid, made of stone blocks, was thought to have been built for the wife of Djedefre, whose father Cheops built the Great Pyramid at Giza, about 10 miles south of the excavation site. .

"What is found is (the base of) the pyramid that is only maybe two or three feet high," Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Antiquities Council, told reporters. "This discovery is very important. It shows that this pyramid is for one of the queens of Djedefre." Djedefre is believed to have usurped the throne in Egypt by murdering his older half-brother roughly 4,500 years ago to become the third king of the fourth Pharaonic dynasty.



Update on ebay's "Haunted Painting"

Whatever your beliefs, this painting is spooky.

In February 2000, an anonymous seller started an auction for a 'Haunted Painting'. The ad included grim warnings about possible supernatural powers held by the image and told the story of how the painting had affected the sellers' lives since they bought it a year previously.

The advert also included a series of pictures of the picture 'changing form' at night - caught on film by a webcam. The last two pictures purport to show the doll coming to life and using a 'gun' held in her hand to force the boy to leave the painting.

Reports began coming in of strange reactions upon viewing the pictures. These included people being violently ill or fainting, children screaming upon seeing the painting and observers being gripped by an 'unseen entity'.