From CNN.com:

“Archaeologists find Egyptian Stone Age stores

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) -- Archaeologists in Egypt have found eight Stone Age grain stores at an oasis southwest of Cairo that help show the shift from hunting to agricultural societies, the Ministry of Culture reported.

The ministry said the discovery was made by a team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in an area north of Fayoum 100 km (60 miles) southwest of Cairo, where 67 grain stores were found in 1926.

‘The well-preserved nature of these stores helped experts to understand the transformation of societies, from depending on hunting to a stable agricultural society,’ government antiquities chief Zahi Hawas said in the statement.”

Also found were several “impulse items” believed to have been placed at the stores counter for easy shopping. Items included naked lady pens, “Wacky Wall Walkers,” Altoids in mummified wrappings (believed to “lock in freshness”), and various maps “to the stars” with stops by several pyramids, the Sphinx and Abe Vigoda’s house.