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Suprise Find Has Archeologists Smiling (Mummies - Egypt)
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| 12-21-2003
Posted on 12/21/2003 3:31:53 PM PST by blam
Surprise find has archeologists smiling
December 21 2003 at 06:03PM
Cairo - French archeologists have discovered 19 mummies as well as wood and limestone sarcophagi in an ancient Egyptian burial ground south of the capital, antiquities officials said Sunday.
The secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawwas, said in a statement that a mission from the Louvre Museum in Paris found the antiquities in the Saqqara region, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Cairo.
Also found were statuettes and pieces of fabric, he added.
These items date to the Late Dynastic Period, or about 1 000 years Before Christ, and the Ptolomaic era, 323 to 30 BC, Hawwas said.
The French mission was examining deep shafts in Saqqara when they discovered the mummies and sarcophagi, according to the statement from the antiquities council.
Twelve of the mummies, found in one of the shafts, are "in good condition," the statement said. - Sapa-AFP
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archeologists; egypt; find; godsgravesglyphs; mummies; smiling; suprise
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:31:54 PM PST
by
blam
To: farmfriend
Ping.
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:32:21 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The mummies are smiling, too.
Everybody's happy.
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:35:39 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Holder of an M.A. degree in The Obvious)
To: msdrby
ping
To: blam
This just in..."French planning to surrender to the mummies tomorrow!"
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:53:29 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannolis)
To: blam
French archeologists have discovered 19 mummies Bill Clinton is on his way.
To: Thinkin' Gal
LOL! Bill Clinton: the new Hugh Hefner.
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posted on
12/21/2003 3:59:34 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: blam
Throw 'em in the hopper, the locomotives need steam.
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posted on
12/21/2003 4:02:12 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: RightWhale
"Throw 'em in the hopper, the locomotives need steam." Yup. They used to burn them for heat and cooking. Ugh.
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posted on
12/21/2003 4:04:31 PM PST
by
blam
To: Paul Atreides
Also found were statuettes and pieces of fabric, he added. Probably astroturf.
To: Thinkin' Gal
Or, the remnants of a stained dress.
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posted on
12/21/2003 4:12:34 PM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: blam; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; abner; Alas Babylon!; Andyman; annyokie; bd476; BiffWondercat; ...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.
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posted on
12/21/2003 4:59:35 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: blam
"Mummy Dearest"
To: blam
"Twelve of the mummies, found in one of the shafts"
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Interesting. Why were the mummies in a shaft?
To: blam
Just like the French : "The French mission was examining deep shafts " Guess the Brits will want some too - you know, as garden fertilizer as they used the mummies in the past. </sarc>
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:42:03 AM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
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