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via egotastic.

Archaeologists said Tuesday they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in an ancient necropolis in the heart of Rome.

The well-preserved skeleton appears to be that of a woman aged about 30, said Anna De Santis, one of the archaeologists who took part in the excavations under the Caesar’s Forum, part of the sprawling complex of the Imperial Forums in central Rome.

An amber necklace and four pins were also found near the 5.25 foot-long skeleton, she said.

The bones, dug up Monday, would likely be put on display in a museum after being examined further, De Santis said.

It was the first skeleton to be found in the 3,000-year-old necropolis, she said. Early this year, a funerary urn that contained human ashes, as well as bone fragments that appeared to be from a sheep, were found in one of the necropolis’ tombs.

Alessandro Delfino, another archaeologist who took part in the excavations, said Monday’s discovery highlighted a "social change" in the funerary habits of the people who dwelled in the area, from incinerating to burying the dead.

Experts have said the necropolis was destined for high-ranking personalities — such as warriors and ancient priests — heading the tribes and clans that lived in small villages scattered on hills near the area that later spawned one of the world’s greatest civilizations.

 The Associated Press.

Vodafone, the world’s biggest wireless operator in terms of revenue, posted an annual loss of £21.9 billion yesterday, its biggest ever, in a sign that European telecommunications companies had not completely recovered from the hangovers that followed the expansive late 1990’s.

Jean Dermine, a professor of banking and finance at Insead, a business school near Paris, said he thought the Vodafone loss, equivalent to about $41 billion, would qualify as the largest in recent European corporate history.

But the loss did not reflect Vodafone’s continuing operations, as most of it came as Vodafone wrote down the value of its businesses in Germany, Italy and Sweden.

Indeed, Vodafone’s revenue surged, and the company’s third-generation mobile services showed signs of strength.

In a bid to placate investors, the company, which is based in Newbury, England, and has 170.6 million customers in 27 countries, increased its dividend by 49 percent, to 6.07 pence a share. The company also increased the size of a special share giveaway planned for August to £9 billion, from the £6 billion announced in March.

Vodafone’s shares initially rose as much as 3 percent in London on the shareholder incentives, but the moves prompted the ratings agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s to cut their ratings on Vodafone’s £17.3 billion of debt.

The stock closed unchanged at 119.75 pence.

via NYT.

With the clamor over religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" barely fading, a major Hollywood studio is mining the same vein with a Satanic "666" marketing campaign for its new horror film.

"The Omen", a remake of the 1976 horror classic, is the kind of film that routinely makes it big at the box office, appealing to the coveted demographic of young and predominantly male thrill-seekers.

Twentieth Century Fox has banked "The Omen" on a promotional campaign based on "666", the number associated with Satan, based on Revelation, the last book in the Bible.

Even the film’s worldwide debut is set for June 6, 2006, or 06/06/06, which the studio conveniently has shortened to 666 in the film’s logo.

In the Christian culture, the number "666" is the symbol of the devil, as related by Revelation 13:18: "This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666."

"The Omen" is the story of a father who realizes his adopted infant son, Damien, who has a 666 birthmark on his skull, is a reincarnation of Satan. A maelstrom of death surrounds the boy.

"The prophecy is clear, the signs unmistakable: Armageddon is upon us. On 6/6/06, the omen is revealed…and our darkest fears are realized," says the 20th Century Fox website.

The use of a Satanic promotional campaign comes at a sensitive time, after this month’s release of "The Da Vinci Code" provoked an outcry from religious groups protesting the film’s controversial theme of a married Jesus Christ and a Vatican cover-up.

U.S. semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Monday it will invest $2.5 billion, or nearly 2 billion euros, to expand its production facilities in the eastern German city of Dresden.

The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, opened its factory for 64-bit processors in Dresden last October. It now plans to expand that plant.

The expanded capabilities will include additional 300-millimeter wafer production facilities, as well as a new clean-room facility for the final stages of manufacturing.

AMD, which makes microprocessors, flash memory devices for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries, already employs several thousand people in Dresden.

The U.S. firm’s investments have underlined Dresden’s status as a relatively prosperous part of the former communist East Germany, which in general remains economically depressed.

The Associated Press.