Tomb May Shed Light On 10th Plague

Boston Globe ^ | 11-23-2004 | Charles M. Sennott

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Tomb may shed light on 10th plague

By Charles M. Sennott, Globe Staff | November 23, 2004

LUXOR, Egypt — Out of the blinding light of a fall morning here in the Valley of the Kings, American archeologist Kent Weeks led the way down a narrow, stone passageway and into the entrance of a tomb.

Weeks peered his flashlight into the enveloping darkness of ‘‘the hidden tomb,’’ as he calls it, and pressed on through the damp, winding passages toward what may be his archeological team’s most significant find after years of methodical digging, scraping, and brushing.

At the end of a long hallway a human skull rested, propped up in a wooden box, and framed in the bleak light of a bare bulb powered by a generator that rumbled through the stony silence of the tomb.

This skull — Weeks believes, and new scientific evidence suggests — may be that of the oldest son of Rameses II, the pharaoh who most historians agree was the ruler of ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago at the time of the biblical story of the Exodus.

[AppyPappy]

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[lepton]

If you're alive today, you're immune to it.

Maybe the Spanish Flu - which spread pretty much world wide, but certainly not a relatively local plague in ancient Egypt.

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pardon my stupid for poking at a two year old post. :)

[blam]

"Maybe the Spanish Flu - which spread pretty much world wide, but certainly not a relatively local plague in ancient Egypt."

I don't know if we know it was only local. It was recorded by the Egyptians but may have been wide spread.

The Dark Ages was once thought to have been an European event...we know now that it was worldwide.

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