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Published online 2 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021125-11
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Fifteenth-century ostrich egg found
Archaeologists unearth memorial covered in Arabic text.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 500-year-old ostrich egg covered in Arabic poetry. The verses mourn the death of a loved one.
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