politics Advanced de-faking: using public sources to trace the true age of a suspected propaganda video Cory Doctorow

politics Bruce Sterling on the US election: the net is great at tearing down, terrible at building Cory Doctorow

art Great works of 16th-20th century art painted with ground-up mummies David Pescovitz

archaeology Infrared cameras reveal tattoo-covered mummy priestess Andrea James

Space King Tut's dagger was forged from meteorite David Pescovitz

picks Egypt blocked Facebook's Internet service over surveillance demands Xeni Jardin

politics How a street artist pulled off a 50-building mural in Cairo's garbage-collector district Cory Doctorow

archaeology Could secret chambers discovered in King Tut's tomb unlock Nefertiti's mysteries? David Pescovitz

advertising Dig this fantastic Arabic language Coke commercial David Pescovitz

egypt King Tut had chronic medical problems, but his beard falling off wasn't one of them Rob Beschizza

surveillance US officials totally cool with classified surveillance leaks, long as it fits their story Trevor Timm

egypt In 1958 Egyptian audience laughs over proposal for women to wear head scarfs Mark Frauenfelder

Journalism Egypt sentences 3 Al Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison Xeni Jardin