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Rare 2,800-year-old mummified ancient Egyptian HEAD kept in a cupboard in Oxfordshire for a century is up for sale - with an eye-watering £20,000 price tag
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| May 1, 2023
| Sam Tonkin
Posted on 05/01/2023 1:15:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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A rare 2,800-year-old mummified Egyptian head which was brought back to the UK by a British soldier during the First World War
To: DogByte6RER
i wonder which of the 57 genders it is?
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:17:06 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: DogByte6RER
More intelligent than Xao Bi-Dung!
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:17:38 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: DogByte6RER; Red Badger; Rennes Templar
A rare 2,800-year-old mummified Egyptian head brought to the UK by a British soldier during the First World War has gone on sale. The artefact, which was stuffed away in a cupboard for decades because 'it is not everyone's cup of tea'.. Scareion luggage ping.
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:24:05 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
To: DogByte6RER
Just think. 2,000 years from now, someone may dig up our heads and keep them in a cabinet as a nick-nack. I don’t think mine would fetch UK20,000 though.
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:24:20 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: DogByte6RER
The price of getting head has really gone up!
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:26:49 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: DogByte6RER
Looks like pah-pee-ay mah-shay, as the British would pronounce it.
This dude never could have imagined where his head would be in 2,800 years. Should have tipped his preparers extra before hand. They did a crack-up job.
Now it’s time for a proper burial, in wet English soil. Let nature do its work. Maybe future archeologists will use him as proof that pharaohs invaded the Celts.
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:36:17 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: DogByte6RER
Makes me wonder how many other errant Egyptian heads were lost in the Blitz.
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:37:53 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: DogByte6RER
Do they even proofread in England anymore? The head is “going under the hammer” per the article. Poor choice of words, I’d say. 🤣
To: DogByte6RER
I see the genesis of a movie…….
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posted on
05/01/2023 1:44:26 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
To: DogByte6RER
And the English wonder why they have a ghost problem
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posted on
05/01/2023 2:00:09 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
05/01/2023 4:24:24 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
If it's mummified, how do the eyes water?!?
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posted on
05/01/2023 6:10:27 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
Cue the 1961 Bobby Darin hit, “Mummification”.
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posted on
05/01/2023 6:12:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: central_va
LOL! And we have a winner!
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posted on
05/01/2023 6:13:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: SunkenCiv
The head was brought home by a British soldier who fought in Egypt during WWI Most soldiers bring home weapons as war booty....................
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posted on
05/02/2023 5:16:19 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Someone cut the head off, so, it counts.
In past decades, a bunch of tourists and whatnot (whonot?) got waylaid by creepy locals selling bits of mummies they’d plundered. The Grand Rapids museum has a mummy head bought from an Egyptian guy who followed a Grand Rapidian (if memory serves, it was Kendall) around all day demanding money for it.
A previously unwrapped, identified mummy was conserved back in the 1990s, thanks to donations, and while that was being done, the anonymous head was also conserved. Both were CAT-scanned and reproduced forensically, ironically preserving them in an identifiable way.
https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/2015/02/grand_rapids_public_museum_egy.html
In Boston, another example of a severed mummy head is found, but a tentative ID was at least available:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-fbi-helped-museum-learn-identify-4000-year-old-severed-head-180968674/
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posted on
05/02/2023 7:39:57 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: SunkenCiv
The only 'mummy' I can identify................
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posted on
05/02/2023 7:45:57 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Libloather
RBG … yeah, she’s been mummified since the late 20th century!
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posted on
05/02/2023 10:05:04 AM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: Red Badger
Seeing him portray one of the aliens was a bright spot in the unintentionally hilarious multi-season fiasco Babylon 5.
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posted on
05/02/2023 2:05:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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