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Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Tamas Feher from Hungary writes "An Italian archaeologist accidentally found that the central gem in Tutankhamun's regal necklace is not amber, but a mere piece of yellow glass. Kinda cheap for the famous Egyptian pharaoh, best known for his splendid golden mask. Except that piece of glass is much older than civilization. Where did it come from, StarGate? Kind of. Scientists now think a meteorite much larger than the Tunguska event fell from the sky and exploded over the Sahara in prehistoric times. The tremendous heat of the 1000 A-bomb sized fireball melted large chunks of desert sand into perfect glass. The memory of such an apocalyptic event may have made sand-glass gems a desirable symbol, meant to emphasize the pharaoh's heavenly powers."
That suggests to me he dropped and broke it. :)
Looks like Naquadah to me...
Don't you mean the FAARGATE!?!??
We don't vant to get sued. Just be sure it has a mohawk and a wheelchair.
Clearly you're ignoring the obvious source. Pterydactls with frickin' laser beams attached to their beaks.
It turns out that while Tut's sarcophagus initially appeared to be ordinary gold, it is in fact solid fucking gold. "Yeah, I couldn't believe it", Dr. Packenwood said, "but when we finished running all the scientific experiments on the coffin, it turned out to be 200 lbs of solid fucking gold!"
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Are you suggesting Pterydactls migrate?
Depends; are they African or European pterodactyls?
Man-made gems can be more ethical as well since they don't finance activities which further human suffering.
;-)
I see we have incompatible opinions on marriage...
Don't be ridiculous, the Ancients had much more powerful weapons than mere nukes thanks to their mastery of Zero Point Module technology. We know this because we've seen Goa'uld mothership shields take Naquita-boosted nukes with no damage, while Ancient drones cut right through them like butter.
Any society that can create artificial stable wormholes can do much better than nuclear weapons.
=p
Personally I would want to keep a sarcophagus for myself.
Well, I suppose it's never to early to plan for eternity.
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1. Italian scientist finds self alone in room with ancient amber necklace
2. Takes wife's aniversary gift out of pocket and..
3. Makes up BS story to tell the press
4. Profit
Next week we'll have a story on how Tutenkhamen's stuff was found in Venice, provoking theories that the Egyptians came from Europe and were sold out of it a la columbus & native Americans.
Oh don't be ridiculous. The Goa'uld and "stargate" are pure fiction. If you don't stop mocking Eion for trying to bring some enlightenment to the history "establishment", Xenu will come and nuke you over a volcano.
argumentum ad fallacium: Fallacy of defining a fallacy which allows one to dismiss the argument in question.
What would you like to identify first?
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w: a yellowish-brown gem
w: an uncursed worthless piece of yellowish-brown glass