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To: SeeSharp
If it wasn't for the British, Egypt wouldn't have any antiquities left. They would have all been looted from the tombs and sold at the flea markets. It was the Brits who put them in museums and gave them value to begin with. Stupid Egyptians!
38 posted on 01/31/2011 5:58:08 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Um, just a memory from an art class I took long ago BUT didn’t the British used to import mummies for ‘mummy unwrapping parties’, and use them ground up for paint pigments? I also seem to remember mummies being used for firewood...


43 posted on 01/31/2011 11:46:14 AM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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