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Thieves Find Cemetery of Pharaoh's Dentists
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.
So they were grave digging of grave diggers? Why is this even in /.?
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
Slashdotters are quick to point out that copying a CD is copyright infringement and not stealing. Same here: infringing the archeologists-get-it-first act is not theft, it's archeologists-get-it-first infringement.
"E Wallis Budge (translator of the Dover edition Egyptian Book of the Dead)....and the better hotel accomodations at the Cairo Hilton.. "
Was that before or after his lucrative pr0n career, in which he found cozy accomodations at the Paris Hilton instead?
Where were you when the voynix came?
...maybe they're British?