Did the wheat seeds from King Tut's tomb germinate?
I think that's a popular myth, and grew out of (so to speak) the old "mummified wheat" scam that Arab tour guides used to pull at the Pyramids. They'd plant (so to speak) wheat kernels in various nooks and crannies, then tell the marks, er, tourists, that "mummified wheat" is sometimes found around the monuments. Turned into a big Easter Egg hunt.
Someone I went to college with told us about finding "ancient dice" in a crack in the Coliseum. He did the old chewing gum on a stick method to retrieve them, and claimed that he still had them. I immediately suspected that these "ancient dice" were the same kind of stunt by Italian tour guides.
Emmer Wheat from Tut's tomb:
http://whyfiles.org/219everyday_archeo/
http://whyfiles.org/219everyday_archeo/images/wheat.jpg
Does it look like it would germinate? :')
