[SmithL]

What did they think they would find in a tomb?

[kellynla]

Hoffa?

[leadpenny]

Exactly. Corpses in a tomb. Who'da thunk it?

[BenLurkin]

Needs to be added to the silly headlines list that has been going around for a couple years.

[b4its2late]

What did they think they would find in a tomb?

A note indicating who hired Craig Livingstone?

[Uncledave]

[starfish923]

This will be a minor site because it is too old. The old group was not close to being so interesting.

[Little Pig]

Many, if not most, egyptian tombs have long since been pillaged by grave robbers. Finding an intact one, with the corpses still in it, is a rarity.

[add925]

Excavations started in 2000 under the leadership of Egyptologist Barbara Adams, who died in 2002. The work continues under Renee Friedman, the current head of the American team.

Hey, wait a minute.....Does this senario ring a bell?

Think I'll stick to admiring tombs as opposed to digging in them.

[ordinaryguy]

In ancient Egypt, a lot of effort and resources were spent burying things. In modern Egypt, a lot of effort and resources are spent digging things up.

Just an observation.

[Ichneumon]

The American-Egyptian excavation team made the discoveries in what they described as the largest funerary complex ever found that dates to the elusive 5-millenia-old Predynastic era, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday.

Time to take another AP editor back out behind the woodshed for a good thrashing: should be "5-millennia-old".

[tiamat]

SmithL wrote:

What did they think they would find in a tomb?

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No kidding.

Title makes it seem like fresh bodies.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Da Mummy lives!"

</Peter Lorre voice>

[Range Rover]

A deposit of burnt ostrich eggshell found at the site is thought to convey the desire to magically ensure rebirth.

Okay, correct me if I'm wrong but were ostrich only native to Australia? Is this another "out of context" find such as the cocaine and tobacco residue/evidence reported for certain other Egyptian mummies?

Did someone WAAAAY back when bring home the birds as a curiosity or something after a trip to a far off pre-dynastic outpost? May indicate a more correct interpretation that the Egyptian ships found buried near some pyramids and said to be very seaworthy in the type of waters found beyond the Med and Nile were actually better suited to open sea travel than ceremonial river transport.

[DM1]

"What did they think they would find in a tomb?'"
no kidding
i thought this was Lenos Headlines
like
Dead man found in cemetary

[MD_Willington_1976]

Yeah exactly...scientists and the media are always good for a chuckle...next it will be

Divers discover fish inhabit the ocean...breaking news...

[SunkenCiv]

An earlier topic, same as Nick's pinged a while ago.

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