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Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis
Archaeology ^ | November 6, 2007 | Renee Friedman

Posted on 11/08/2007 11:09:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Hierakonpolis is a site famous for its many "firsts," so many, in fact, it is not easy to keep track of them all. So we are grateful(?) to Max Brooks for bringing to our attention that the site can also claim the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In his magisterial tome, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), he informs us that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies. In addition, thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out! ...The tomb in question may indeed be the one we use a cozy and sheltered spot to take our lunch while working on the Fort, as its plastered, but unpainted walls are indeed covered with innumerable scratch marks that defy photography. If is the case, we might quibble -- purely for the sake of scientific accuracy -- that the 3000 B.C. date ascribed for the attack should be revised downward to the Old Kingdom, but its premier historical position remains unaffected.

(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...


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subtitled: "Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt", I get the impression that this article may not be entirely serious. ;')
This nondescript tomb (center) may be the location where the first historical evidence of a zombie attack was discovered. (Courtesy of the Hierakonpolis Expedition)
Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis

1 posted on 11/08/2007 11:09:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 11/08/2007 11:11:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, November 8, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Freakin zombies are on the move again?

Like I ain’t got enough to do already, much less behead approaching zombies...


3 posted on 11/08/2007 11:17:25 PM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Working year after year in the Egyptian heat can do things to ya.

look at what happened to Zombie Hawass for example...

4 posted on 11/08/2007 11:28:31 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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To: djf

We have Zombies here - they’re called “Liberals”.


5 posted on 11/08/2007 11:29:42 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Fred Nerks

LOLLLLLLLLLL!!!

I’m resisting the temptation to find a photo of him and white-out the eyes...


6 posted on 11/08/2007 11:30:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, November 8, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
first historical evidence of a zombie attack was discovered.

The dead are fighting themselves. There'll be a zombie/mummy war before ya know it.
7 posted on 11/08/2007 11:56:09 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: ZULU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD5peb5Ewa0


8 posted on 11/09/2007 12:04:17 AM PST by Uriah_lost ("I don't apologize for the United States of America," -Fred D Thompson)
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To: SunkenCiv
"In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head, "
9 posted on 11/09/2007 4:59:49 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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To: CholeraJoe

I hear fingernails on a chalkboard. Is that Björk?


10 posted on 11/09/2007 6:41:22 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: Billthedrill

Zombies for ya.


11 posted on 11/09/2007 6:43:00 AM PST by dighton
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To: null and void

Nope. Cranberries. Just as irritating though.


12 posted on 11/09/2007 6:44:06 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Right. My bad.


13 posted on 11/09/2007 7:00:52 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: Darksheare
One of your ancestors?
14 posted on 11/09/2007 7:01:31 AM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: rattrap

Ratty, I’ll bring my boomstick, you bring the chainsaws...


15 posted on 11/09/2007 7:21:22 AM PST by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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Machetes man. You don’t want to be looking for gas during a zombie uprising.


16 posted on 11/09/2007 7:45:59 AM PST by rattrap
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds like the start of a very bad Sci-Fi movie.


17 posted on 11/09/2007 7:55:09 AM PST by curmudgeonII
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To: djf; Fred Nerks; Blind Eye Jones; CholeraJoe; curmudgeonII
The Zombies with their latest member

18 posted on 11/09/2007 8:42:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, November 8, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: null and void

Probably a cousin.


19 posted on 11/09/2007 9:07:50 AM PST by Darksheare (Cordite Chipmunk, the Splodent Rodent.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Thank heavens for professional publications! You can't get decent advice on surviving a zombie attack from the comic books - I've tried, Lord knows I've tried. Oh, sure, you find out all about blowing their heads off with a double-barreled shotgun, but there are neighborhoods where everyone doesn't carry a double-barreled shotgun all the time (thank God I don't live in one). In those cases whatchagonnado?

You'd think it would be easy to figure that a guy staggering around drooling and looking for brains would be a tipoff but in a world where Hollywood actors, broadcast news anchors, and Democrats (but I repeat myself) are allowed to run around loose you only end up wasting ammo. Oh, sure, it's satisfying but double-ought costs bucks and you don't want to run short. Four zombies and Michael Moore chasing you around a tree and you don't want to be waiting for the FedEx guy to bring you your Cheaper Than Dirt backorder. That would suck.

20 posted on 11/09/2007 9:10:28 AM PST by Billthedrill
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