Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

[Sciency]

Million-Mummy Cemetery Unearthed in Egypt

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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 Fag 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 Fag 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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[TriPolar]

Aren’t there some question about the number of mummies found there?

[usedtobe]

There is also an issue of the use of the word “mummy” to describe the dead - these are more “mummified by natural earth” than “artificially preserved by elaborate means”.

[Alan_Smithee]

Cool. I could use some brown paint.

[TokyoBayer]

This is a project which Brigham Young University has been doing. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquaries is pissed because BYU broke the agreement and guidelines on how to release information.

Today (Thursday), the ministry of antiquaries denied the “discovery of a million mummies cemetery” and made an official statement describing the published news as “rumors” and decided to stop any cooperation with the mission after the press statement were published in the Daily Mail.

[usedtobe]

Any body buried in dry and/or hot and/or acidic soil will be preserved - the Egyptians discovered their buried dead had not rotted, and began experimenting with preservation techniques.
I remember seeing a pic of a tiny museum in Mexico with a shelf full of mummified infants/small children from the local graveyard.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

How much in the way of Tana Leaves would we need to stage a Million Mummy March?

[Count_Blucher]

@TokyoBayer

This is a project which Brigham Young University has been doing. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquaries is pissed because BYU broke the agreement and guidelines on how to release information.

I guess The Luxor Times had the exclusive?

“The Luxor Times: its Not just for Gizas…”

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

How much in the way of Tana Leaves would we need to stage a Million Mummy March?

“A million mummy march? How would you keep them all together?”
“…needle and thread?”

[mbh]

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

How much in the way of Tana Leaves would we need to stage a Million Mummy March?

Well, according to the famous documentary, The Mummy’s Hand,

Andoheb: Tana leaves!
The High Priest: Bring three of them. Three of the leaves will make enough fluid to keep Kharis’s heart beating. Once each night, during the cycle of the full moon, you will dissolve three tana leaves and give the fluid to Kharis.
[a jackal howls]
The High Priest: Children of the night, they howl about the Hill of the Seven Jackals when Kharis must be fed. Should unbelievers seek to desecrate the tomb of Ananka, you will use nine leaves each night to give life and movement to Kharis. Thus you will enable him to bring vengeance on the heads of those who try to enter.
Andoheb: Yes, master.
The High Priest: But never, for any reason, must you brew more than nine leaves at one time. Should Kharis obtain a large amount of the fluid, he would become an uncontrollable monster, a soulless demon with the desire to kill and kill.

So, nine million leaves. I would want the Scroll of Thoth, myself.

[eschereal]

Mormons found a million dead people? What ever will they do about that?

[TriPolar]

@eschereal

Mormons found a million dead people? What ever will they do about that?

They’re already converting them.

[usedtobe]

@TriPolar

They’re already converting them.

To paint?

[TokyoBayer]

@eschereal

Mormons found a million dead people? What ever will they do about that?

You did not that the project was described as a mission, right?

[Count_Blucher]

@usedtobe

To paint?

…well, we know its not coffee…

[AHunter3]

You know who’s going to end up with the goddam genealogy records, right?

[TokyoBayer]

@TokyoBayer

You did not that the project was described as a mission, right?

Should have been “note” of course.

Those of us on the ex-Mormon sites are enjoying the discomfort for everyone, especially the mission leader, Dr. Kerry Muhlestein and Egyptologist at BYU, and a leading apologetic for the Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is an 1835 work produced by Joseph Smith[1] that he said was based on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was “a translation of some ancient records … purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus”.[2] Smith’s translation of the papyri describes a story of Abraham’s early life, including a vision of the cosmos.

As an Egyptologist, Kerry is a leading Mormon apologist for the Book of Abraham, but his arguments are scoffed at by other scientists.

[Count_Blucher]

@eschereal

Mormons found a million dead people? What ever will they do about that?

Teach them to sing?

*'Tep! 'Tep!
Im-Ho-Tep!
'Tep! 'Tep!
Im-Ho-Tep!

Once knew a Ho from 'cross the Nile!
(Once knew a Ho from 'cross the Nile!)
Used Birth Control from a Crocodile!
(Used Birth Control from a Crocodile!)
Tana! Two, Three, Four!
Tana! Brew More!

Gotta sun-beat leather face; thats 'natch
(Gotta sun-beat leather face; thats 'natch)
need a 'vegas/Cali girl to match!
( need a 'vegas/Cali girl to match!)
Tana! Two, Three, Four!
Tana! Brew More!

'Tep! 'Tep!
Im-Ho-Tep!
'Tep! 'Tep!
Im-Ho-Tep!*

[Try2B_Comprehensive]

Mormon archaeologist, world’s worst job. You never, ever discover anything that supports the claims of the Book of Mormon, and nearly anybody could have told you that’s how it would turn out from the start.

[TokyoBayer]

I just checked the official stats from Salt Lake, and the YTD convert baptisms is over 1,000,000 more than last year. .

Not really, of course.

[F.U.Shakespeare]

Maybe they’ll “find” a Reformed Egyptian-English dictionary.