8 Million Dog Mummies Found in 'God of Death' Mass Grave

www.livescience.com ^ | June 18, 2015 08:07am ET | 8 Million Dog Mummies Found in 'God of Death' Mass Grave by Laura Geggel, Staff Writer

[Red Badger]

The ancient remains of a complete canine mummy in an undisturbed section of the catacomb. Credit: P.T. Nicholson; Copyright Antiquity Trust

[Red Badger]

..Woof! Woof!.............PinGGG!.................................

[Talisker]

The catacomb ceiling also contains the fossil of an ancient sea monster, a marine vertebrate that's more than 48 million years old, but it's unclear whether the Egyptians noticed the existence of the fossil when they built the tomb for the canine mummies, the researchers said.

Nah, they didn't notice.

LOL

[WayneS]

Eight million?

Who counted them?

[tophat9000]

8 million “Mummy” dogs?...aint that a bitch?

[Red Badger]

It was in the woof...................

[Red Badger]

ISIS will want to burn it all...........................Dogs are ‘unclean’ to muslims.................

[Larry Lucido]

They rounded up.

[Larry Lucido]

Do dogs receive “woofs” on their Woofer accounts?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

8 Million Dog Mummies Found in 'God of Death' Mass Grave

[Red Badger]

Only if their bark is worse than their byte......................

[Gen.Blather]

“ISIS will want to burn it all...........................”

Funny you should mention that.
“Bizarre products came from mummies, or parts thereof. Such commodities included “Mummy,” ground mummies molded into pills for medicinal use (175); “mummy brown” paint (176); and cheap fuel for locomotives. Mark Twain reported in his 1869 travelogue The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, Conn.) that mummies were burned like coal to produce steam on the rail line from Cairo to Alexandria (176–77). Entrepreneurs imported mummy rags to make paper in the United States. Paper mogul Isaac Augustus Stanwood, for example, had trouble obtaining enough domestic rags during the Civil War until he hit upon the idea of bringing over shiploads of linen-wrapped Egyptian mummies. His machinery macerated linen bandages and papyrus fillers. From the resulting slurry, Stanwood produced coarse brown sheets “sold to shopkeepers, grocers, and butchers, who used [them] for wrapping paper” (189).”
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1184

[gov_bean_ counter]

Catacomb, not dogacomb???

[Red Badger]

Recycling is good.................

[WayneS]

I’ll bet they did!

[Teacher317]

One catacombs system, with 8 million dogs? When the entire population of the entire nation of Egypt was estimated around 3 million back in 1446 BC? Sorry, I’m not buying it.

[Red Badger]

Dog-a-comb..............

[Red Badger]

Well, I’d imagine that these mummies represent a long period of time, not just a few years, we’re talking centuries of Anubis worship................

[Talisker]

It was in the woof...................

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

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