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Debido al 45 aniversario de la puesta a la venta del primer GT350 de Shelby, la marca ha aprovechado dicho aniversario para presentar su último Ford Mustang, el Shelby Mustang GT350 a un precio de 23.400€ .

Realmente ese no es su precio final si no que debemos comprar por nuestra parte el Mustang y llevarlo posteriormente a las instalaciones de Shelby para que le realicen las modificaciones pertinentes, entre ellas el aumento de su potencia hasta los 500 CV.

Estéticamente la verdad es que me ha gustado mucho ya que han sabido jugar con los colores para darle un aire fresco al modelo. A continuación os dejo con una galería de imágenes:

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Aunque no será hasta el Salón de Ginebra cuando podamos verlo en vivo ya tenemos las imágenes oficiales del nuevo Mazda 5, un monovolumen de 7 plazas con unas líneas bastante atrevidas, basta con fijarse en el par de líneas onduladas que recorren los flancos.

Como características de este nuevo modelo podemos adelantar que habrá una nueva línea con un motor 2.0 DSI de inyección directa y caja manual de 6 velocidades.

El nuevo Mazda alardea de haber reducido sus emisiones de CO2 en un 15% respecto con la antigua versión.

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Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief?

Dawn was breaking as Howard Carter took up a crowbar to pry open the sealed tomb door in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. With shaking hands, he held a candle to the fissure, now wafting out 3,300-year-old air. What did he see, those behind him wanted to know. The archaeologist could do no more than stammer, “Wonderful things!”

This scene from Thebes in November, 1922, is considered archaeology’s finest hour. Howard Carter, renowned as the “last, greatest treasure seeker of the modern age,” had arrived at his goal.

Carter obtained about 5,000 objects from the four burial chambers, including furniture, jars of perfume, flyswatters, and ostrich feathers – the whole place was a dream of jasper, lapis lazuli, and turquoise. He even discovered a ceremonial staff adorned with beetles’ wings.

The “unexpected treasures,” as Carter described them, suddenly brought to light an Egyptian king previously almost unknown – Tutankhamun, born approximately 1340 B.C., who ascended the throne as a child.

UPI.com

The man responsible for discovering King Tut’s tomb may have deceived Egyptian authorities to steal treasured relics for himself, experts say.

British explorer Howard Carter discovered the Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 in one of the world’s most famous archaeological finds, but may have systematically removed objects without authorization, Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

Carter had intended the contents of the tomb to go to England and the United States, but Egypt refused, insisting all artifacts remain in the country. Thwarted, Carter and his team then secretly helped themselves to many of the relics, some of which ended up in museums outside Egypt, the newspaper said.

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes

necn.com

Video, with partial transcript.

Back in 2006 Gerry Conlogue and Ron Beckett used x-rays, a c-t scanner and endoscope to look inside Pa Ib. He’s a mummy that has been on display at the PT Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut since 1896. Conlogue and Beckett are scientists. Three years ago they were looking for clues into Pa Ib’s identity. The radiologist who looked at the x-rays then came across something startling. There is a packet of some kind inside Pa Ib’s abdomen.

Prof. Gerald Conlogue, Quinnipiac University: He thought he saw a falcon mummy in there so instead of an organ packet he thought it was an actual mummified bird within the body cavity. This is what we’re going to be looking for.

Although it is rare scientists have found bird mummies connected to human mummies in the past.

Yahoo! News

Researchers are using the latest imaging technology on an Egyptian mummy to try to unlock secrets of the ancient world, including whether a mysterious packet inside her was an offering to the gods to help secure a place in the afterlife.

The high-resolution testing Thursday at Quinnipiac University also may determine the age at which the woman died and whether she gave birth, researchers say.

“It really is going to give us a fantastic view of this mummy,” said Ronald Beckett, co-director of the Bioanthropology Research Institute at Quinnipiac. “Every mummy has a story to tell. Every piece of information adds to our understanding of the ancient Egyptians.”

The mummy, known as Pa-Ib (pronounced py eeb) and believed to be about 4,000 years old, will be transported Thursday in a coffin complete with a police escort from the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport to the university’s campus in North Haven. A CT scanner will take images that are eight times the resolution of tests done on the mummy in 2006, and a tiny camera will be inserted inside the mummy.

Researchers are trying to determine if bundles in the abdomen and pelvis cavities contain a bird mummy or are organs. The earlier tests led to speculation that the bundles might contain a bird mummy.

And the results:

SFGate (John Christoffersen)

Researchers who examined an Egyptian mummy with the latest imaging technology found no evidence that a packet inside her was an offering to the gods of the ancient world.
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Previous tests led to speculation that the packet was a bird mummy — something researchers said would be an unusual and exciting find — but high-resolution tests Thursday at Quinnipiac University showed no remnants of a bird. Instead, researchers said the packet and a few others in the mummy likely contained organs, which were sometimes preserved and placed back in mummies for use in the afterlife.

The mummy, known as Pa-Ib and believed to be about 4,000 years old, has been in the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport since the 1890s and was a prized exhibit of the flamboyant showman P.T. Barnum.

It was transported Thursday in a coffin complete with a police escort from the museum to the university’s campus in North Haven.

A CT scanner took thousands of images that are eight times the resolution of tests done in 2006, and a tiny camera was inserted inside the mummy’s skull. Researchers expect to report their conclusions in March.

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes

Chinese electronics maker HOTT has shown of a new Windows CE 6.0 powered tablet at CES.  The device features a 7 inch screen and 8 hours of battery life for WIFI web browsing, or 3 hours of video, which includes 1080p video decoding and HDMI output.

The 800 Mhz ARM A9 device also features USB Host, which can be used for keyboards, mice and also USB 3G Dongles, also also a consumer Infra-Red transmitter, so with the right software could be used as a universal remote.

The device accepts SD cards, which means internal storage can easily be expanded to 32 GB.

The HOTT M700 will be sold to OEM’s for as little as $120, and should reach end consumers for only $250.

Via Ubergizmo.com and liliputing.com