3500-year-old oasis trading post discovered in Egypt + Facebook to introduce voice/video chat (rumor)

Egypt's antiquities department yesterday announced the discovery of a 3500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes that stretched from the Mediterranean down into Sudan from the early days of the Egyptian civilisation.The settlement at Umm el-Mawagir in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, more than 500 kilometres south of Cairo, has been excavated for the