Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

[Myke]

http://www.livescience.com/49147-egyptian-cemetery-million-mummies.html

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The remains of a child, laid to rest more than 1,500 years ago when the Roman Empire controlled Egypt, was found in an ancient cemetery that contains more than 1 million mummies, according to a team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

The cemetery is now called *** el-Gamous, which means ""Way of the Water Buffalo,"" a title that comes from the name of a nearby road. Archaeologists from Brigham Young University have been excavating *** el-Gamous, along with a nearby pyramid, for about 30 years. Many of the mummies date to the time when the Roman or Byzantine Empire ruled Egypt, from the 1st century to the 7th century A.D. [See photos of the million-mummy cemetery

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[Iroh]

 

[Seano]

How much does it cost to buy one of the mummies?

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

How much does it cost to buy one of the mummies?

With that many mummies flooding the market, the mass supersaturation should bring the price down so drastically it's become a buyer's market overnight.





You: "Hmmm, $9? That mummy looks a little- you know, kinda ragged and old n stuff. I'll just shop around somewhere else"

Dealer: "No! There was ah, a mistake on the, uh sheet, it was supposed to say $4.90, and that's a pretty fair price for this one, really, because I mean he was a ruler of the 23rd dynasty. "

You: "Yeah, exactly-- 'was'. *yawn*"

(pause)

*Dealer sighs, rolls his eyes as he walks over and tucks a square packet of duct-tape into the folds*

Dealer: "Whoops, heard someone mighta lost a baggie or two of cocaine down there"

 

[Like A Bas]

The hell are they doing? Covering it back over with dirt and re-unearthing it for press every two weeks?