You are so on top of this Zombie Invasion thing. I'm glad you're on our side.
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 ...
Now I have to dog out my copy of “Zombie Survival Guide” and “World War Z.”
Buried back to back,
Belly to belly,
I don’ use no petroleum jelly
I don’ give a damn
Cause I been there already,
At the Zombie Jamboree
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