Posted on 01/30/2011 10:42:21 PM PST by pillut48
Is that the Sphinxter?
I've always thought that Hawass was a pompous jackwagon who felt that he .. and only he .. had personal ownership over all artifacts in Egypt and that only his interpretation of Egyptian history was valid. I made a special effort to avoid watching any history program which featured him as a primary narrator or interpreter.
For too many years, he had his way with antiquities interpretation, defending his interpretations and talking about how only Egypt .. and, by extension, he .. could safeguard those antiquities, and demanding return to Egypt of all "stolen" artifacts. I hope the rabble burns down all of the museums in Egypt so they can sit around and groove on the rubble of Islam after it's all destroyed.
Um, just a memory from an art class I took long ago BUT didn’t the British used to import mummies for ‘mummy unwrapping parties’, and use them ground up for paint pigments? I also seem to remember mummies being used for firewood...
I remember mummy wrappings being used for something but can’t remember what it was.
They were ground up into powder also used for quack health cures, IIRC.
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