And then there were more

Egyptrsquos City of the Dead Aswan is a gift that keeps givingmdashif you are an archaeologist A team recently uncovered more than 36 tombs from an ancient cemetery that had 300 documented tombs so far And each tomb is said to hold 30 to 40 mummified bodies each Five years of digging at the site that was once located on the hill near the modern Mausoleum of Aga Khan III brought up burial grounds spanning 270000 sqft and with tombs ascending up to 10 terraces The team of international researchers estimated the site had been in use for around 900 years between 6 BCE and 9 CEAccording to Ayman Ashmawy who heads Egyptrsquos Supreme Council of Antiquities 30 to 40 per cent of the remains belong to infants and adolescents many of whom died of infectious diseases and lifethreatening illnesses including anaemia tuberculosis and diseased organsldquoAswan has been a historical meeting pointmdashgoods from southern regions of the continent would arrive here and be dispersed everywhere elserdquo says Patrizia Piacentini an archaeologist at the University of Milan who led the team Describing one of the mummified remains she says ldquoAt first we thought they were mother and child but new CT scans showed they are two children We recently found a woman near them who was likely their mother and the remains of a man likely to be their fatherrdquoAswan was nicknamed the City of the Dead after a similar discovery in 2019 A tomb containing the mummies of two children was discovered and then later two more remains presumed to be their parents were uncovered Each dig thereafter has uncovered dozens more tombs and provided more clues about the civilisation that thrived there more than 2000 years ago Further excavation also revealed that bodies were buried according to their socioeconomic classes with the remains of the elite entombed at the top of the hill900 yrsEstimated use of the siteUngratefulness comes with a costWoman poisons husband for not appreciating surprise birthday partyA spousal squabble took a lifethreatening turn when a disgruntled Missouri woman spiked her husbandrsquos Mountain Dew with a weed killer His crime Not being appreciative of her efforts to plan and throw him a surprise birthday party for his 50th According to officials the man had become suspicious when he noticed that one of the bottles of the fizzy drink in their refrigerator tasted unfamiliar When it started revolting inside him and ejecting from both ends he decided to check CCTV camera footage It caught his wife pouring the herbicide Round Up into his soda ldquoMichelle admitted to putting the household poison from the basement into the twolitre Mountain Dew bottlerdquo the police said in an affidavit ldquoand placing it in the garage refrigerator on the evening of June 23 2024 Michelle said she was mad and just wanted to be meanrdquoNow thatrsquos a tipPicThe Daily MailA stranger played fairy godmother to her food delivery partner by making his wedding dreams come true Paul Slobodzian attached an endearing note with Erica Hernandezrsquos chipotle order expressing his desire to give his fianceacutee a wedding she deserves She later shared it on TikTok where it became viral and and soon the wedding kitty was full Grateful they also invited her A toast to her toesPICODDITY CENTRALA British foot model Emilie Rae is selling wine worth pound100 Rs 10000 made by crushing grapes with her feet to the ecstacy of podophiles everywhere Named as the Simp Wine Rae also expresses ldquoI nearly lost my life in the trampling process When the skin of the grapes break they become really slippery I was stomping away trying to look sexy in this ball gown and the next minute Irsquom flying off to the siderdquoThat gavel didnrsquot go offA 90yearold Chinese woman identified only by her last name Qin has been using a hand grenade to crack nuts for 20 years She only realised she had been gambling with her life when some handymen pointed out it was a hand grenadeFor the diehard fansA member of the University of Nebraska Barbara Weitz recently proposed rooms to be made for urns containing the mortal remains of Cornhuskers as the teamrsquos fans are called under the Nebraska Memorial Stadium What was made as a lighthearted suggestion was eventually considered to make up the budget shortfallTypo frees murdererA small mistype in prisoner number set an American man free Amarion Sanders charged with murder was accidentally dismissed from Cuyahoga County Jail in Ohio instead of another prisoner with a similar number Sanders who was held in connection with a gunshooting in September last year is now on the run with the police hot on his heels