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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:26 PM
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Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
Source: BBC

Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.

More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings.

Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the findings including of two suspected pyramids.

"To excavate a pyramid is the dream of every archaeologist," says Dr Sarah Parcak.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957
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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 07:42 PM
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1. I hope they have those sites guarded
or the information guarded, or it will be another open season of tomb robbing and artifact smuggling, I hate to say.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 09:46 PM
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4. "another year, another body", says Abdullah.
I've been reading the Amelia Peabody series again. :D
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 10:50 PM
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7. I love those books! n/t
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 12:19 PM
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11. I've got the whole set.
They're comfort reading. :D
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okasha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:59 PM
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13. Love 'em.
I understand another is in the works.
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Reader Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:00 PM
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14. Another shirt ruined!
Actually, I prefer the Vickie Bliss novels to Amelia Peabody.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:58 PM
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15. They're fun, too.
:hi:
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MsPithy Donating Member (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:59 PM
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20. OOPS!
Sorry to have posted the same line, I didn't read down far enough.
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MsPithy Donating Member (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:53 PM
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19. "Another shirt ruined!"
I love Amelia, and Abdullah!
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:19 PM
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22. Just came across this in The Golden One...
"Abdullah had been inclined to wax sarcastic about what he considered my unreasonable demand for cleanliness. 'The men are sweeping the desert,Sitt. How far from the house must they go?'" :rofl: Priceless.

Seriously, I've learned so much about egyptology from just reading those books. Kudos to Elizabeth Peters! :toast:
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:46 PM
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18. The vast majority of tomb robbing in Egypt happened thousands of years ago.
The reason undisturbed tombs are rarely discovered is not because people are out pillaging them now, but that they were a very very long time ago.
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Tutankhamun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:12 PM
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23. Yes, a lot of it was done by the Pharaohs themselves.
They knew where the tombs were, and nobody could stop them.

I should know!
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Hestia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:43 PM
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26. The antiquities blackmarket is still alive and well in Egypt. Many sting operations
to get them back. Mostly in "private collections", i.e., stolen in the first place.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:14 AM
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27. Sure, but I don't think many are fresh from ruins.
I don't remember all of the details, but there was a big story about antiquities smuggling a few years ago. It made the news because it involved the Getty, but it was much larger than that. The really crazy thing I remember from the story is that the Swiss have warehouses inside their borders but before their border check points; effectively these places are nowhere and subject to no laws.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 08:13 PM
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2. So cool.
Personally, I don't care about the pyramids. I care about the craftsman townships that grew up to build them. Those places have records.
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blackspade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 09:24 PM
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3. Damn, I love technology!
This kind of stuff is one of the coolest things in my field these days.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 10:01 PM
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5. How totally awesome! N/T
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 10:09 PM
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6. k&r n/t
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nilram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:04 AM
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8. "Indiana Jones is old school" hehe
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aj_cd Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:44 AM
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9. Thanks
I love this kind of thing,
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 12:16 PM
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10. That is truly amazing. As stated above, I hope they protect the sties...
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RedSpartan Donating Member (736 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:33 PM
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12. They've discovered Tanis!!!
And Indy fans, you know what that means...
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FailureToCommunicate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:17 PM
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16. "The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:11 PM
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21. "Sneer of cold command" - - that would be Dick Chaney!
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Corruption Winz Donating Member (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:39 PM
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17. That's pretty crazy.. Cool though.
However, if someone says that you can pay $1,000 to help uncover the findings and you can get others to pay you $500 to get to them quicker, be weary.........
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Tutankhamun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:19 PM
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24. They could have just asked me, but noooooooooooo!
What good would it do to ask a Pharaoh? He couldn't possibly know anything about ancient Egypt. Oh noooooo. No way. What good would it do to ask an actual god on Earth who fucking lived there! Son of a motherfucking crack whore! I need a bong hit.
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Hestia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:41 PM
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25. I fervently hope that Egypt picks a moderate to replace Hiwass - it's
phenomenal that they have found so many sites, but you and I will never get to see the inside of these pyramids. Most of the one's they do know about are blocked by the military. Rumor is, the hieroglyphs go against muslim teachings.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:29 AM
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28. For UK DU only.
Egypt's Lost Cities : Monday 30th May, 20:30 on BBC One

Hour and half full documentary.:thumbsup:
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 10:44 AM
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29. Thanks for that!
Will try to get back in time to watch it.

:toast:
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 03:51 PM
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30. The Egyptians have never ceased to amaze us
and they continue to boggle our minds with their achievements!
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