Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert

Independent Online ^ | Saturday, December 29, 2007 | unattributed

[I Drive Too Fast]

Yam straight this is hugh. I think they deciphered some of the letters and they made out Corriganankhamun who was notorious for never asking for directions.

[punster]

I think we could start a pyramid scheme for punners. I know the pharoah, having a terrible nightmare, woke up, screaming, “I want my mummy!” When the Sahara dried up, they were getting their just deserts. Of course, the Egyptians were prone to gambling, they liked to play pharoah. They may have been in a state of de nile, about their gambling. Then again, they could have taken a river cruise, a senile tour. They actually had a form of radio, and the news commentator was a talking dog, who was a star. An that is really sirius.

[devolve]

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Thanks for the Egyptian Pingeroo!

“M” will get a kick out of this

I guess they clearcut the forests like John Edwards (private 18-hole golf course and tennis courts, indoor swimming pool, indoor full basketball court, and the rest of his 30,000 square foot moansion on hundreds of formally “pristine” C woodlands), burned energy at a rate of 30 average homes (algore’s Tennessee mansion), and used water and fuel like John Kerry (9 mansions [with 7 “tax-exempt foundation” vehicles each!] here and abroad plus 2 exec jets, 3 luxury yachts/boats, and a “NIMBY” wind power free Cape Cod view!)

Good graphic potlatch!

[potlatch]

No pictures at the site. I’ve never heard of ‘the fabled land of Yam’ before.

Strangely - to me - sandstone sounds somewhat like limestone. I would think of it as being soft and amazed that it would preserve hieroglyphics after all this time.

[devolve]

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Shifting desert sands cover and protect many remains of huge dinosaurs in the African deserts

They may have discovered the fabled ancient Land Of Sweet Potato Pie

Tut Tut Tut!

[potlatch]

Yes I know dry sand can preserve things, look at all that has been buried in the sands of Iraq.

But we talk of ‘shifting sands’ and I’m still amazed they are preserved.

et tu tut tut, heh.

[Inyo-Mono]

Happy New year to you too! Put me on your ping list if you have one.

[LexBaird]

I wanted to add "Help me, Rick!!", but that's that other Bogart movie.

Perhaps this quote:

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Yam?
Rick: My health. I came to Yam for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

[Tanniker Smith]

Desert would be "I yam who yam" . . .

nah.... that might be going a little too far . . .

[SunkenCiv]

I had been thinking of starting one... yeah, a ping list... I’ll make that my New Year’s resolution.

[SunkenCiv]

Canine help it that none were provided? ;’) HNY!

[SunkenCiv]

Just a second, I didn’t quite hear your response. It’s my own fault, too, every January 1 I ring in the new year by cranking up the stereo. Always the same song, too, “Alexandria’s Ragtime Band”.

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, that was excellent, and what a way to end the old year. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

:’) This whole experience gave me an idea for a science fiction short story, set on Earth, but with the “aliens built the pyramids” angle; the title, Starship Tubers. Okay, maybe that one took the long way around...

[freedomlover]

Good Dog!

[Grut]

Eighteenth Dynasty is 3500 years ago. That’s an awfully long time for exposed hieroglyphics to stay readable. I think I’ll wait a bit before I get too excited.

[SunkenCiv]

There are carvings and paintings older than that which have survived in inhabited areas, so there’s not much impediment to having this one.

[SunkenCiv]

land of Yam (a number of hits, one common idea is that it's in Nubia):

Google

[SunkenCiv]

"Egypt: Definition and Much More from Answers.com"

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Mapping Specialists, Ltd.

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[SunkenCiv]

Jimmy Dunn, InterCity Oz, Inc.