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Archeologists Discover Hidden Tomb in Ancient City of Petra and a Skeleton Holding Vessel Resembling Indiana Jones’s ‘Holy Grail’
ARTnews ^ | George Nelson

Posted on 10/28/2024 5:37:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 10/28/2024 5:37:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Maybe this was the persons favorite drinking cup


2 posted on 10/28/2024 5:39:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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He chose...poorly.


3 posted on 10/28/2024 5:40:43 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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He chose poorly. Otherwise they could’ve just asked him.


4 posted on 10/28/2024 5:41:54 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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Are they sure that it isn’t the beacon from the Castle Anthrax? Looks like a grail.


5 posted on 10/28/2024 5:43:12 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: nickcarraway

This was a recent episode of Expedition Unknown. About two weeks ago.


6 posted on 10/28/2024 5:44:03 PM PDT by yukong
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Nonsense. The real Holy Grail was studded with diamond-shaped pears and clover eggs the size of emeralds.


7 posted on 10/28/2024 5:45:32 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.


8 posted on 10/28/2024 5:45:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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Publicity stunt for the 35th anniversary of the movie.


9 posted on 10/28/2024 5:55:05 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: nickcarraway; Red Badger; SunkenCiv
“When we spotted what looked like a chalice, all of us just froze. It looked nearly identical to the Holy Grail featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, set in the ancient building directly above the tomb,” he said.

What next? The Ark of the Covenant in a US Government warehouse?

10 posted on 10/28/2024 5:59:35 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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I’ve visited Petra in 1996. The movie connection was in my mind. The vast interior where the grail was was a movie set. The actual entrance only goes a few feet in and then just a solid wall of rock. Kind of a letdown when you have the movie dancing in your imagination. That said the carvings in solid rock are awesome. Petra is considered by many to be the top place to visit in the middle east. Even above the Pyramids.


11 posted on 10/28/2024 6:01:21 PM PDT by xp38
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"Maybe this was the persons favorite drinking cup"

Spelling Bee trophy.
12 posted on 10/28/2024 6:02:49 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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Well it’s gotta be somewhere!..…...…....


13 posted on 10/28/2024 6:07:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I have been there while on deployment. It was truly amazing.


14 posted on 10/28/2024 6:09:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Post #3! Thank you for upholding FR’s standards for wit!


15 posted on 10/28/2024 6:24:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Red Badger; null and void; Phinneous
Well it’s gotta be somewhere!..…...…....

Funny detail (life imitates Ark):

Raiders was released on Friday, June 12, 1981. The Torah/Chumash reading was the same as on PDJT's birthday, the one that opens with the 85-letter sectioned marked out by the inverted nuns [נו"ן הפוכה‎]:

Numbers 10

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35. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them who hate you flee before you:
36. And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel:

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It's liked I'd offered for this year's ([7]85 תשפ"ה) year blessing,

May it be a year of an inverted opening.

תהא שנת פתיחה הפוכה

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16 posted on 10/28/2024 6:30:56 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Wait, I thought the pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true...


17 posted on 10/28/2024 6:32:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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There were two shows, Part 1 & 2, I watched them. I’m happy for Josh Gates, I watch him often, but I don’t believe I could be as excited as he gets opening graves.

I imagine Expedition Unknown covered some of the expenses involved.


18 posted on 10/28/2024 6:40:06 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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No! There’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace. They replaced it with a flagon with a dragon. The pellet with the poison is in the flagon with a dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.


19 posted on 10/28/2024 6:45:23 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: nickcarraway

Footed drinking cups weren’t a thing until the Middle Ages.


20 posted on 10/28/2024 6:53:05 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)
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