CHRISTIANITY IN THE OASIS Dakhleh residents converted from Egyptian-Roman pagan traditions to Christianity in the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. according to evidence discovered at the town site at Kellis. The earliest known liturgy is a large fragment from the Acts of St.John found there and...
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Ancient skeletal remains found at Dakhleh are raising intriguing medical questions. The antibiotic tetracycline was ingested naturally and prevented infectious diseases, but an anaemic condition indicating nutritional stress was also universal. Two cancers and spina bifida have been isolated. DNA technologies applied to ancient...