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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.

Breathtaking Mummy Coffin Covers Seized in Israel

1 posted on 04/21/2012 8:39:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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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> ---)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pretty fancy.


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)
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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
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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
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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 (Love me, love my guns!©)
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