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Egypt Update: Rare Tomb May Have Been Destroyed
ScienceInsider ^ | Thursday, February 3, 2011 | Andrew Lawler

Posted on 02/05/2011 4:29:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Reports of damage to one of the few ancient Egyptian tombs devoted solely to a woman have tempered the news that most of Egypt's priceless antiquities have escaped damage and that teams of foreign archaeologists are safe... One archaeologist present at the famous cemetery of Saqqara, south of Cairo, said that as many as 200 looters were digging for treasure in the area this past weekend before police resecured the area. The excavator, who requested anonymity, added that the tomb of Maya, the wet nurse of King Tutankhamun, was "completely destroyed." Another Western archaeologist said, "We still don't know the extent of the damage, but things have been bad and out of control." ...Hawass also vehemently denied that there has been heavy looting in Saqqara... Foreign archaeologists in Luxor say the situation in that city far to the south was normal. W. Raymond Johnson, who heads the University of Chicago team there, said that after some weekend rioting all was quiet and that there was no damage to any site. His team resumed work on Sunday.... At Amarna, once the capital of Egypt under the pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti, all is "as peaceful as ever," says Barry Kemp, a University of Cambridge archaeologist who is still at the site. An attempt to loot archaeological magazines on the other side of the Nile River was thwarted by police, he said. "Order has not broken down in the countryside as it has in Cairo," he says. Kemp said all foreign expeditions were ordered on Saturday to halt work and leave. Most of his team has since left, and he intends to travel to Cairo soon "to sit it out until I can come back."

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KEYWORDS: egypt; godsgravesglyphs; religionofpeace
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1 posted on 02/05/2011 4:29:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 02/05/2011 4:30:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dumbassed sand people. No sense of history, other than that which they want to rewrite.


3 posted on 02/05/2011 4:35:55 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The typical M.O. of al Qaeda enabled by
Ayers, Hamas, Ikhwan, CODEPINK, the DNC, and Obama.


4 posted on 02/05/2011 4:38:10 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ScottinVA

We were there a couple years ago. There is a vast area of tombs...some already on “display” and many not even opened. The antiquities are everyone’s to preserve and protect...not just the Egyptians. Sad some are so foolish. I can see how the uncivilized could easily evade the guards and loot. Civilization has such a thin veneer, no?


5 posted on 02/05/2011 4:40:39 AM PST by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Diogenesis
It is interesting that Obama's buddies and bundlers are so interested in toppling Egypt. Is it the destruction of Israel that drives them, or has Obama sold them on the idea of a vast Islamic Caliphate with him at the top?

And what advantages would a domestic terrorist like Ayers see in either potential outcome?

6 posted on 02/05/2011 4:45:44 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama and the Radical Left: 'People of the Lie')
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To: SunkenCiv
Dumbest program....ever


7 posted on 02/05/2011 4:46:19 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: ScottinVA

There was a time when Egypt was non-arabic and non-islamic. Erasing history is islamic SOP.


8 posted on 02/05/2011 4:50:06 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: hal ogen
Considering the poverty in Egypt and the street value of antiquities, it is not at all surprising that looting is rampant. This is a natural offshoot of the breakdown of the rule of law in Egypt.

And of course, Obama is all for it. After all, Egypt before Islam was nothing but idolatry (to a devout muslim like Obama).

Our only hope for these antiquities is that some of the looters realize the true value to history of what they are looting and exert some care as to not destroy every thing they step on.

9 posted on 02/05/2011 4:51:11 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama and the Radical Left: 'People of the Lie')
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To: ScottinVA
Sad and heartbreaking. I guess the argument to return all of Egypt's artifacts from foreign museums is mute now.
10 posted on 02/05/2011 4:58:12 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Obama’s legacy...
11 posted on 02/05/2011 4:59:34 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Obama has demonstrated to the world the failure of Affirmative Action)
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To: ErnBatavia
Dumbest program....ever

LOL, what whining girls peeing in pyramid's wasn't interesting?

12 posted on 02/05/2011 5:02:33 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What can you expect? Egyptians are poor & uneducated.


13 posted on 02/05/2011 5:08:57 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: ladyvet

"Zoe! Zoe! Come lay with me! And Shut up! Shut Up!"

14 posted on 02/05/2011 5:19:26 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: nuconvert

Sons of Ishmael. Wild asses. No big surprise.


15 posted on 02/05/2011 5:21:39 AM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: Diogenesis

Every last one you listed are enemies of Liberty, Freedom and GOD HIMSELF.

LLS


16 posted on 02/05/2011 5:22:57 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: CalvaryJohn

The same thing would happen if it were in Watts. The looting has nothing to do with being muslim.


17 posted on 02/05/2011 5:32:26 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: SunkenCiv

2 1/2 million Egyptians in the tourist industry out of work.


18 posted on 02/05/2011 5:35:01 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: ErnBatavia

Can’t change the channel fast enough when that crap comes on.

As far as the “priceless” tombs and such in the Middle East, I couldn’t care less since it will ALL be turned to glass one day soon. Sorry folks.


19 posted on 02/05/2011 5:35:42 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
And what advantages would a domestic terrorist like Ayers see in either potential outcome?

Ayers and his psycopathic killer wife are out to destroy America as we know it. Obama was not a product of Alice Palmer turning her seat over to him, she had NOTHING TO DO WITH OBAMA. Ayers had Obama's coming out party at his house as Ayers thought up the whole scam and brought Obama up the whole way.

By the time you finally see Obama really is a plant by the radical left and Islamic states it will be too late. America will be broke OR even worse, Obama and his band of traitors will be in control enslaving YOU and YOUR FAMILY.

Watch 4 minutes into video

OBAMA is a Damned Liar, 4 minutes shows truth that Ayers set him up

20 posted on 02/05/2011 5:36:15 AM PST by politicianslie (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders)
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