Thieves Find Cemetery of Pharaoh's Dentists

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @06:15AM from the yank-like-an-egyptian dept.

junglee_iitk writes with news of an important archaeological find from Egypt. Grave robbers located a tomb and were arrested while digging; what they found turns out to be the graves of three dentists who took care of a Pharaoh's teeth. The graves are located in the shadow of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, said to be Egypt's oldest, and are around 4,000 years old. From the article: "Although archaeologists have been exploring Egypt's ruins intensively for more than 150 years, [a senior archaeologist] believes only 30 percent of what lies hidden beneath the sands has been uncovered." Yahoo has a few pictures of the dig.

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So ..? by Van+Cutter+Romney · 2006-10-23 06:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So they were grave digging of grave diggers? Why is this even in /.?

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Re:And yet... by beckerist · 2006-10-23 10:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...maybe they're British?