Posted on 12/05/2006 10:32:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The upper part of the tomb was discovered in 2000 at Saqqara, 20 km (12 miles) south of Cairo, and the sarcophagus came to light in the burial pit during cleaning work, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday, quoting Egyptian government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass. The doctor, whose name was Qar, lived under the 6th dynasty and built his tomb near Egypt's first pyramid. The 6th dynasty ruled from about 2350 to 2180 BC. Hawass said the lid of the wooden sarcophagus had excellent and well-preserved decoration and the mummy itself was in ideal condition. "The linen wrappings and the funerary drawings on the mummy are still as they were," he said... The tomb also had earthenware containers bearing the doctor's name, a round limestone offering table and 22 bronze statues of gods.
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The mummy was accompanied by several mummified patients from the doctor's waiting room.
...and in the hands of each of the patients, really, really old papyrus magazine scrolls...
How would "Payment expected at the time of service" be in hieroglyphic Egyptian?
Has Bill Clinton flirted with it yet?
On a serious note didn’t they find a couple of Dentist in a single tomb just a few months ago?
Is it true they dated the mummy from the magazines in his waiting room and then subtraced a few years???
She was found clutching a picture of the doctor, age 12, playing doctor with the neighbor girl.
On a serious note didn’t they find a couple of Dentist in a single tomb just a few months ago?...and if so, have the mummies been extracted yet? [rimshot!]
Just once I'd like to read about Hawass wrenching open a sarcophagus, and a midget mummy clown jumps out and smashes a pie in his face.
A regular Jack-in-the-box would do.
Everybody's got to be a comedian :)
I think the ancient Egyptians preferred Burger Pharaoh for their take-out needs.
Yeah, some of us who joke about ancient Egyptian mummies...
...wait for it...
...wait for it...
...wait for it...
AREN'T WRAPPED TOO TIGHT!
[rimshot! another rimshot! even though I've used it many times]
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