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Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 7-8-2004 | John Hooper

Posted on 07/11/2004 12:25:26 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 07/11/2004 12:25:27 PM PDT by blam
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To: FairOpinion

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 07/11/2004 12:25:57 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

This is fabulous! Can't wait to hear what else they discover. What a find!!


3 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:20 PM PDT by EggsAckley (You can't be pro small business and pro trial lawyer at the same time! ** George W. Bush)
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"A long-rumoured secret crypt of Italy's mighty Medici family was discovered by scientists yesterday after a hunt reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie. The vaulted chamber was found under a stone floor behind the main altar of the Medici chapels in the church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Under the gaze of sculptures by Michelangelo and his pupils, researchers lifted a stone slab to find seven steps leading down to the entrance. According to Italian media reports, the hidden crypt is between 2.1 metres (7ft) and 2.4 metres high and six metres by at least four metres wide. "

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4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: FairOpinion; blam

This is very interesting. The Medici famiy has always fascinated me, most modern politics can be traced to them. I hope the find out more.


5 posted on 07/11/2004 12:36:38 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: EggsAckley

Where's Geraldo!


6 posted on 07/11/2004 12:39:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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To: blam

bump...


7 posted on 07/11/2004 12:40:53 PM PDT by danneskjold ("Somebody is behind this..." - George Soros)
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To: blam

Thanks for the post. The Medici family has always held great fascination for me.


8 posted on 07/11/2004 12:42:17 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: blam

Interesting


9 posted on 07/11/2004 12:43:33 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BunnySlippers

You beat me to it!


10 posted on 07/11/2004 12:43:59 PM PDT by nuke_road_warrior
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To: blam

BTTT


11 posted on 07/11/2004 12:44:14 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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LOL!


12 posted on 07/11/2004 12:45:12 PM PDT by EggsAckley (You can't be pro small business and pro trial lawyer at the same time! ** George W. Bush)
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To: blam

Hey...I don't have to put the other stuff back now, do I ?!!

What ever happened to "finders keepers?"

Well...some of the bones I can't put back.

Sorry.


13 posted on 07/11/2004 12:47:32 PM PDT by PoorMuttly ("BE Reagan !")
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To: EggsAckley

The "news" will be broadcast by Jerry Rivers on local channels.


14 posted on 07/11/2004 12:50:11 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: joanie-f; snopercod

Hillary's filing cabinet, discovered.


15 posted on 07/11/2004 12:51:34 PM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: blam

Digging up the dead? This is weird.


16 posted on 07/11/2004 12:52:54 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: blam

Oh, wow.


17 posted on 07/11/2004 12:57:51 PM PDT by Desdemona (The dog days have officially hit. Go Cards!)
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To: Irish Eyes

You should check out the exhibition in Memphis about the Medici: http://www.wonders.org/current/index.htm


18 posted on 07/11/2004 1:03:54 PM PDT by John Thornton
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Digging up the dead? This is weird.

Dammit ! this means several hundred additional democrat voters...

19 posted on 07/11/2004 1:36:50 PM PDT by Wil H
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bookmark bump


20 posted on 07/11/2004 1:54:07 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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