'Evil Eye' Box Among Discoveries in Ancient Nile River Cemetery

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Villagers discovered the cemetery while digging a ditch near the Nile River in Sudan. Archaeologists have found a box decorated with large eyes believed to protect against the "evil eye," a silver ring and a tomb with bones of a man wearing a thumb ring.

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