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Question : Which form of writing did the ancient egyptians use
A.  Calligraphy
B.  Hieroglyphics (This one)
C.  Italics

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Two killed and eight injured in Cairo attacks

By Tom Perry and Edmund Blair
CAIRO (Reuters) - A bomber and two veiled women attacked tourists in 
separate incidents that killed two people in Cairo on Saturday, targeting a 
museum and a tourist bus, official sources said.
An Egyptian man was killed and seven people injured near the museum in what 
Cairo's security chief said was a suicide attack.
In the other attack -- the first in living memory by women in Egypt -- the 
two veiled women opened fire on the bus in southern Cairo but missed, 
Cairo's Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said.
One of the women then shot dead the other and the second was wounded, 
possibly by herself, the official sources said.
Those injured in the bombing were three Egyptians, an Israeli couple, one 
Italian woman and a Swedish man, the official sources added. "They are in 
stable condition in hospital," said Tourism Minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi.
Shortly afterwards, the two veiled woman opened fire at the bus on the Salah 
Salem highway, one of the main arteries through the south of the city.
The bombing near the museum, one of Egypt's most popular tourist 
destinations, was a suicide operation, Azabi said.
The Interior Ministry said the bomber was Yousri Yassin, a fugitive member 
of the group which planned an April 7 bombing which killed three tourists in 
a Cairo bazaar.
It said that he had jumped from the bridge into the square below, where he 
detonated the bomb. "They found his papers, and the identity card of the 
perpetrator of the Azhar (bazaar) incident," the ministry said in a 
statement.
Other security sources said someone had thrown a bomb from a bridge which 
passes behind the museum.
The body of the dead man lay on its back in a pool of blood under the 
bridge. His head was blown apart but the rest of his body was apparently 
intact. He was wearing a light blue shirt and dark trousers, a Reuters 
journalist said.
BLOOD, BLACK GLOVES ON STREET
Police gathered together pieces of his head and laid newspaper on the street 
to soak up the blood.
Azabi said one of the women in the bid to attack the tourist bus in southern 
Cairo was probably the wife of the bomber.
At the scene, witnesses saw shattered glass, blood on the street, newspaper 
to soak it up, a pistol and what appeared to be a pair of black gloves of 
the type worn by veiled women.
Security officers at the scene said that after their attempt to hit the bus 
failed, one of the women then shot dead the other, before shooting and 
wounding herself.
But other security sources gave other versions. Some said police had 
exchanged fire with the women, killing one of them.
Hoda Eid, a woman who was in the museum area at the time of the explosion 
there, said: "I heard a big explosion. It felt like the bridge was 
collapsing."
"There was a lot of smoke and pieces of the body flew all over the place," a 
taxi driver witness added.
The Egyptian Museum contains the treasures from the tomb of the Pharaoh 
Tutankhamun and is visited by thousands of tourists every day. But the bomb 
was behind the back of the building, away from the entrance.
Security forces cordoned off the area around the site of the explosion and 
ushered away onlookers.
Police kept traffic away from nearby Tahrir Square, the site of the well 
protected main entrance to the museum, and checked the bags of pedestrians 
in the area.
The April 7 bombing was the most serious in the Nile Valley since 1997. But 
in October last year, a group led by a Palestinian attacked Red Sea resorts 
frequented by Israelis, killing 34 people.