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The wooden cover, which would have held a mummy in the past, had been cut in half, likely by smugglers who needed to fit the artifacts into a suitcase. Image: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

1 posted on
04/21/2012 8:39:48 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Sometimes you wonder how even half this stuff could have survived until the present age. I guess even the evil treasure hunters have done us a favor once and a while.
3 posted on
04/21/2012 8:44:47 AM PDT by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SunkenCiv
4 posted on
04/21/2012 8:45:47 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("A litte plain food, and a philosophic temperament, are the only necessities of life."~W. Churchill)
To: SunkenCiv
amazing. i feel gipped somehow at the quality of our coffins now. just dang. beautiful.
5 posted on
04/21/2012 8:59:38 AM PDT by
GOP Poet
To: SunkenCiv
Beautiful.
Steve Martin was right. Don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
13 posted on
04/21/2012 10:35:31 AM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
had been cut in half, likely by smugglers who needed to fit the artifacts into a suitcase.
Or by a bad magician.
16 posted on
04/21/2012 12:58:30 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
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