[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Charles Henrickson]

Human Remains In Ancient Jar A Mystery

Yes, why would a human remain in an ancient jar?

[Billthedrill]

This sort of thing tended to happen to people who knew too much about Hillary even back then.

[tet68]

Somehow I just knew "Coneheads" would be involved....
this IS Remulac we are talking about!

[Continental Soldier]

Maybe it will turn out that those ancient Egyptians, reasonably forseeing the future, were just 'playing with your head' all along. :)

[BenLurkin]

Now the question is, who was this individual?

A wannabe.

[Ancesthntr]

This is probably the ancient source of Prince Albert in a can jokes.

[SengirV]

As long as it isn't one of these canopic jar -

[Cheburashka]

Recycled canopic jars ping.

You know, I really hate it when they take your jar, dump out your guts, and put women's lip gloss in the jar.

Remind me not to be buried in a jar. It's the only way to stop these beasts.

[madison10]

...and tonight's menu: Canned King aka Pickled Pharoah.

[Physicist]

I'm not surprised. IIRC, the mummy of Ramses II was found in a cache with many other royal mummies. The mummies seemed to have been moved in a hurry, probably as some emergency measure.

The priests who moved the jars may not even have known to whom the jars belonged. In any case, the pharoahs had all eternity to sort it out.

[mikrofon]

Human debris in a modern jar-

[SunkenCiv]

...while a second jar held the organs of an entirely different person who lived around 760 years later.

Tee-hee. :')

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[Fierce Allegiance]

Could it be Jeannie's sister?

[SunkenCiv]

KV 7 (Rameses II)
Theban Mapping Project

The tomb was open in antiquity, but it been almost completely filled with flood debris since then. According to the "Strike Papyrus" in the Turin Museum, two tomb robbers tried to enter KV 7 during the regnal year 29 of Rameses III in Dynasty 20. In Dynasty 21, Rameses II's mummy was moved first to KV 17, then to the cache in the tomb of Queen Inhapy at Dayr al Bahri, TT 320, where it was found in 1881.

[Graymatter]

Some twit with security access probably switched jars, taking the real-deal jar for use in some hocus pocus. Happens all the time.

[finnigan2]

"The aromatic salve was determined to contain animal fat — probably from a pig — which was mixed with coniferous oil, such as cedar, juniper or pine."


- "Yuummmmmmm, pig fat" - Homer Simpson

[SuzyQue]

Unguent (perfumed salve) cones were worn on top of heads by women in banquets...

I'm so glad that this particular style has been consigned to the canopic jar of history, and has not come back into fashion.

[AndrewC]

Connan, a professor in the bio-organic geochemistry laboratory at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg,

The Barbarian?