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Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
AP ^
| FEBRUARY 28, 2010
Posted on 02/28/2010 11:56:11 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
A ministry statement Sunday said the team discovered the head of Amenhotep III wearing the traditional white crown of the southern kingdom buried in the pharaoh's mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor.
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TOPICS: History; Reference
KEYWORDS: archaeology; godsgravesglyphs
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To: Bratch
Al Gorge?
To: al baby
looks like my nut sack after surfing Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day.
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02/28/2010 12:48:46 PM PST
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Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Bratch; JoeProBono
Hooray for Mort Weisinger!
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02/28/2010 12:49:15 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Bratch; JoeProBono
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02/28/2010 12:50:59 PM PST
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Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Yardstick
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02/28/2010 12:54:18 PM PST
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Mila
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To: Brugmansian
Imagine the labor involved in that. With our equipment even a small piece of worked granite is expensive. That's what I was wondering. The finish work of that statue is so smooth. How did they do it without modern diamond cutting blades? Next to diamond, granite is one of the hardest substances.
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02/28/2010 1:21:15 PM PST
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6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: 6SJ7
Little men from Sirius. Or was it Hugh?
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02/28/2010 1:25:12 PM PST
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narses
("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
To: Jet Jaguar
Great find. I am amazed and fascinated every time they make a discovery like this. The craftsmanship is amazing.
To: 6SJ7
Looked it up. Red and Black granite is #7 on the Mohs scale so they used emery, #9 on the scale,which they had to import as it is not found in Egpyt
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Still..even roughing it out would have been incredibly time consuming.
To: The KG9 Kid
"It's a cook book!!!!!"
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02/28/2010 1:37:06 PM PST
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Lockbar
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To: Jet Jaguar
Just what we need: another Egghead
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02/28/2010 2:30:52 PM PST
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bunkerhill7
(God bless)
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02/28/2010 3:39:02 PM PST
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Bratch
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03/02/2010 4:28:13 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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03/02/2010 4:31:09 PM PST
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Gator113
(Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-ent] with no Negro dialect..")
To: SkyDancer
Helen Thomas?!? What kind of evil bastard would do such a thing?!?
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03/02/2010 4:32:44 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Where did I put that eye bleach .....
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03/02/2010 4:34:17 PM PST
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SkyDancer
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03/02/2010 4:48:51 PM PST
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Fresh Wind
("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
To: SkyDancer
Hysterical blindness doesn’t look so bad now, eh? ;’)
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03/02/2010 5:32:08 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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