During the recent escalation, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip, killing a total of nine Palestinians, including a 14-month-old toddler along with her pregnant mother, and destroyed seven at least residential buildings, on Sunday.
Egypt’s antiquities ministry unveiled a 4,500-year-old burial ground near the Giza pyramids containing colorful wooden coffins and limestone statues dating back to the Old Kingdom.
The site on the southeastern side of Giza plateau contains tombs and burial shafts from various periods, but the oldest is a limestone family tomb from the fifth dynasty (around 2500 BC), the ministry said.
The tomb was that of two people: Behnui-Ka, who had seven titles including the Priest and the Judge, and Nwi, also known as Chief of the Great State and “purifier” of the king Khafra.
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“On the whole men are more good than bad… But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague (via philosophybits)
