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Glitzy parade of 22 mummified pharaohs fills Cairo streets
Live Science ^ | April 6, 2021 | Nicoletta Lanese

Posted on 04/10/2021 7:32:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Twenty-two mummified kings and queens were paraded through Egypt's capital city of Cairo on April 3, each "float" resembling a glitzy war chariot. The 18 kings and four queens were moved from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, located about 3 miles (5 kilometers) away, BBC News reported. The parade proceeded down the River Nile and included royalty from the 17th to the 20th dynasties of ancient Egypt... CBS News reported. Each mummy sat inside a nitrogen-filled box atop a decorated vehicle, which was equipped with shock-absorbers, BBC News reported; the nitrogen was intended to protect the mummies, since exposure to oxygen can cause decomposition. The parade route had also been repaved for the occasion, to minimize jostling.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: egypt; godsgravesglyphs; newkingdom; zahihawass
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1 posted on 04/10/2021 7:32:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
This is the Digest ping for this week.
Unpostable bonus story: Prehistoric cave painters were hallucinating due to lack of oxygen deep underground [Joe Middleton, The Independent, April 8, 2021]

2 posted on 04/10/2021 7:34:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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It’s admirable the steps Egyptians take to preserve their history.


3 posted on 04/10/2021 7:35:01 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: SunkenCiv

4 posted on 04/10/2021 7:37:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise

5 posted on 04/10/2021 7:38:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: a fool in paradise

6 posted on 04/10/2021 7:40:09 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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BTW, try a search on the phone number, it appears to be correct for this guy.


7 posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping, SunkenCiv! What an amazing parade! I don’t think folks saw very much, but they seemed to put a lot of effort into it. I’m actually a little surprised that jihadies didn’t try to spoil it.


8 posted on 04/10/2021 7:43:40 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Here are links to the articles in some coming GGG topics:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/408778/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/In-Photos-Egyptologist-Zahi-Hawass-announces-disco.aspx

https://academictimes.com/well-discovered-on-ancient-egyptian-site-suggests-climate-instability-in-region/

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-famous-mummy.html

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/04/controversial-norton-disney-site-to-be-dug-up-in-search-of-ancient-mysteries/

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2021/04/04/3000-year-old-bird-shaped-vessel-placed-burial-urn-found-in-bulgarias-baley-in-crucial-thracian-bronze-age-necropolis/

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2021/04/01/large-silver-coin-hoard-hidden-during-251-ad-goth-invasion-of-roman-empire-discovered-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/

https://apnews.com/article/ancient-coins-may-solve-mystery-1600s-pirate-f5a6151b74e0dcf96de585eab451f90c

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/04/01/secret-crypt-within-a-crypt-discovered-under-pancyprian-gymnasium/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stave-church-tar-conservation

https://www.livescience.com/worlds-deepest-shipwreck-dive.html


9 posted on 04/10/2021 7:43:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BradyLS

They’ve already spoiled the entire country. :^)


10 posted on 04/10/2021 7:45:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Someone’s dying to get in a parade


11 posted on 04/10/2021 7:47:39 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Liz

I saw a documentary a long time ago about Ramses II’s mummy being taken to France for study. It was received at the airport with full military honors per protocol for a head of state


12 posted on 04/10/2021 7:49:39 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: chajin

People interested in mummies aren’t wrapped too tight.

Congratulations to that joke, it’s celebrating its hundredth anniversary.


13 posted on 04/10/2021 7:53:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Liz

I remember the Shah of Iran having a similar parade of their armies and navies of the past. this was around 1972. Lots of glitz followed by their modern army.

A few years later it was all swept away in the islamic revolution caused by Carter the Incompetent.


14 posted on 04/10/2021 7:53:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: BradyLS

Yeah, we have nothing like that around here, probably because of the complete lack of mummies.


15 posted on 04/10/2021 7:54:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: dfwgator

Oh-way-oh!(


16 posted on 04/10/2021 8:01:28 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Now when he was a young man
He never thought he’d see
People stand in line
To see the boy king


17 posted on 04/10/2021 8:11:28 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Liz

Why don’t they let them rest in peace?


18 posted on 04/10/2021 8:32:14 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: SunkenCiv

I said don’t read the inscription out loud!

If you want mummifigeddon, this is how you get Mummifigedddon.


19 posted on 04/10/2021 9:05:21 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Liz

Not really. Tourism is their cash cow and terrorism has put one heck of a dent in it. I used to live less than a mile from the museum.


20 posted on 04/10/2021 9:14:06 AM PDT by Salvavida
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