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Keith
03-02-2005, 04:33 PM
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) -- Australian archaeologists have discovered one of the best preserved ancient Egyptian mummies dating from about 2,600 years ago, Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities has said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/01/egypt.mummy.reut/index.html
angelisis
03-02-2005, 05:44 PM
way ahead of ya keith....trust aussie's to find it though.....we are the best at anything we do.
arcan
03-03-2005, 01:20 AM
way ahead of ya keith....trust aussie's to find it though.....we are the best at anything we do.
Or is it just at finding ages-old bones hidden in a closet? Then my dog is also pretty good at finding old bones. Alas, they never carry old gold-egyptian ornaments! :( :D
Dog of the Sun
03-03-2005, 07:02 AM
Angel found it Feb 28 to be exact. I'm surprised that CNN Headline only said the beraking news yesterday :( or did they :rolleyes:
imhotep3147
03-03-2005, 08:00 AM
Man, I wanna find a mummy......I'd settle for some nice potsherds even!!! :D Ah well, I guess I'll just have to wait until I finish college....meh.
Ascura
03-07-2005, 03:50 PM
when I was a kid, I always wanted to become an archeoligist(can't spell XP) but then in 5th grade, I thought all the mummies to find were gone, but I guess i was wrong. Go Aussies!!!!(even If I'm a Canadian-New Jerseyian, but w00t!)
Keith
03-07-2005, 05:25 PM
There's more to archaeology than just Egypt. So many things yet to be re-discovered.
Dog of the Sun
03-07-2005, 06:49 PM
Did you know that over 1/2 half of the Cairo Museum isn't opened. A couple months ago National Geo. had filmed over half of the 1&1/2 miles of the unopened chambers of artifacts. :eek: :cool:
angelisis
03-07-2005, 07:50 PM
yes...i have seen film too of this storage rooms that hold mummies and other artifacts. but what i have seen is not so good. some one I know is putting together something now that anyone with an intrest, career or love for ancient egypt, would bring tears to your eyes and make you question the powers that govern the egyptian antiquites council.
not evrything you see on TV is how it really is.

I have seen pictures of mummies half buried in the ground, their tombs open to the elements. I have seen burial shafts used as dumping grounds for rubbish same can be said for a small ptomelic temple. I have seen in those very store rooms in the ciaro museum (pictues) of mice nesting and eating stored mummies and artifacts and I have also seen home video footage of a burial chamber used for storage knee deep in storm water and sewage run off.

it is a awful shame. and knowing what i know and seeing what I have seen.. it also makes me wonder if anything new they discover may be well, left UNDISCOVERED.