Egyptian looters destroy 2,000-year-old mummies in bid to steal King Tut's treasures | |
diggerbanks User ID: 1122212 United Kingdom 01/30/2011 05:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Quoting: SheldonCooperThe army was on guard at Egypt’s most popular tourist sites last night after two 2,000-year-old mummies in the country’s national museum were destroyed by looters attempting to steal the treasures of King Tutankhamun. Soldiers were positioned at the Pyramids and Cairo’s Egyptian Museum – the holding place for Tutankhamun’s priceless golden mask and other artifacts – on the fifth day of anti-government demonstrations in the country’s capital. Nine men broke into the Egyptian Museum in the early hours of yesterday, taking advantage of damage caused to the building’s security by a fire in the neighbouring headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party. They were caught by police and a crowd of civilians while carrying out the skulls of two mummies and two statues estimated to be more than 2,000 years old. One statue, believed to be of Tutankhamun, was broken into two pieces by the thieves, although officials said they hoped to be able to repair it. Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said: ‘They tried to attack and rob from the showcases of King Tut, but they failed. These people are criminals, they are not true Egyptians. The nine men were caught carrying skulls and two statues, one of which was broken. But the army are now guarding the museum and all the museums are now safe.’ Now that's not good. The simplest explanation is more likely the correct one |
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Nothing is true User ID: 1249102 United Kingdom 01/30/2011 05:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the looters work for Mubarak. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1220422That's what I read too, don't know how true it is though. Also, the DailyMail doesn't mention how the people ringed the museum in order to prevent further looting. Everything is permitted.. |
R... User ID: 572408 Netherlands 01/30/2011 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BASTARDS! Good thing they got caught! Greedy Egyptians destroying their heritage! To the gallow! "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." - 'Wargames' "This world is more like a mystery, trapped in a conundrum, spun by a paradox." - AC1118155 |
AC914884 Stop the inanity! User ID: 918879 United States 01/30/2011 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Made recent for morning. Repeal the 17th Amendment and the Reapportionment Act of 1929! Thread: First steps down the road to a return to the Constitutional Republic that we were intended to be. Restore the Republic. Thread: The Bill of Rights does NOT include age requirements! It's a flower, not something to be feared. - Moo! |
Only Me Strawberry Girl User ID: 725691 United States 01/30/2011 05:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Those stupid bastards! Goodbye, halcyon days... There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened. |
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Woodsprite User ID: 1247853 United States 01/30/2011 05:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He got lucky that it was stopped at only 2 mummies and a couple of statues. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1249111 Australia 01/30/2011 05:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hmm sounds like iraq post saddam.. still they can do some good break into the leg of the sphinx using a yellow crayon to join the dots.. careful not to go into that room with the 1 big eye and 1 small eye... and go find that map of mars |
SHR Forum Administrator 01/30/2011 05:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit a lot of Cairo is made from the granite pillaged from the pyramids...why would anyone be shocked?...did anyone give a shit when the Taliban bombed those 2,000 year old Buddha statues out of those Afghan cliffs?....how many of you even knew of or remembered that...when the Islamics take over there won't be any love for antiquities and some heathen non muslim museum pieces... Last Edited by SHR on 01/30/2011 05:19 AM ____________________________________________________ E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [link to www.showmemyip.com] Ooooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very streets today... Burns like a red coal carpet, Mad bulls lost the way... War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1245506 Germany 01/30/2011 05:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to edition.cnn.com] The antiquities chief said 10 small artifacts were also damaged, but can be restored. |
R... User ID: 572408 Netherlands 01/30/2011 05:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit a lot of Cairo is made from the granite pillaged from the pyramids...why would anyone be shocked?...did anyone give a shit when the Taliban bombed those 2,000 year old Buddha statues out of those Afghan cliffs?.... Quoting: SHRyes, we certainly gave a shit... "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." - 'Wargames' "This world is more like a mystery, trapped in a conundrum, spun by a paradox." - AC1118155 |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1245506 Germany 01/30/2011 05:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Before the army arrived, young Egyptians - some armed with truncheons grabbed off the police - created a human chain at the museum's front gate to prevent looters from making off with any of the artefacts. Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the would-be looters only managed to vandalise two mummies, ripping their heads off. They also cleared out the museum gift shop. However, the museum's contents could still be damaged by the potential collapse of a neighbouring building gutted by fire, Hawass said. |
SHR Forum Administrator 01/30/2011 05:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit a lot of Cairo is made from the granite pillaged from the pyramids...why would anyone be shocked?...did anyone give a shit when the Taliban bombed those 2,000 year old Buddha statues out of those Afghan cliffs?.... Quoting: SHRyes, we certainly gave a shit... Well, that probably makes 2 people then... ____________________________________________________ E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [link to www.showmemyip.com] Ooooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our very streets today... Burns like a red coal carpet, Mad bulls lost the way... War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... |
R... User ID: 572408 Netherlands 01/30/2011 05:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Shit a lot of Cairo is made from the granite pillaged from the pyramids...why would anyone be shocked?...did anyone give a shit when the Taliban bombed those 2,000 year old Buddha statues out of those Afghan cliffs?.... Quoting: SHRyes, we certainly gave a shit... Well, that probably makes 2 people then... loads more...don't know how much news it was in the US, but here it was BIG. It were major antiquities, you know, loads of info in them, priceless stuff. A bit culturally insensitive to dismiss all of this as unimportant. "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." - 'Wargames' "This world is more like a mystery, trapped in a conundrum, spun by a paradox." - AC1118155 |
pipi long socks User ID: 1248992 Croatia 01/30/2011 05:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BASTARDS! Good thing they got caught! Greedy Egyptians destroying their heritage! To the gallow! Quoting: R...YEAP Just imagine! and see [link to www.inminds.co.uk] then tell. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1249088 United States 01/30/2011 05:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Those stupid bastards! Quoting: Only MeOh look at that - a Zionist expresses outrage at the destruction of an old dead body (and rightly so) yet fails to express outrage at the destruction and murder of thousands of lives during the reign of a brutal dictator and in fact implicitly supports him. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1249111 Australia 01/30/2011 05:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thing is.... the so called egyptians who live in egypt are just a parasitic race no more original than the maggots of a wasp that infest a caterpillar.... then hatch out of it and eat its insides WHY would a race of people slave for ... apparently.. hundreds of years to build these pyramids and monuments then come along all of a sudden and use the coating and blocks to make a city and house the common man? simple answer.. these people are thieves not only of jewels and riches.. but of the very land it sits on they are NOT destroying their own history it is someone elses |
acolyte User ID: 1249106 South Africa 01/30/2011 05:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For what it's worth, it seems DynCorp sent in Xe (aka Blackwater) to the Giza complex early this morning. Thread: ***UPDATE: Huge Contingent of DynCorp Personnel now setting up safe perimeters around EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS (GIZA COMPLEX)(EVAC HUB 05) I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. (Og Mandino) "Credo Quia Absurdum" (I believe it because it's absurd) Links to my forum on GLP are banned so just google "the chani project forum" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1035843 Austria 01/30/2011 05:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And what does Zahi , the fool hawass do? He surely do not protect hus fake Artifacts. I really wander where he is now. Besides Blackwater defends the pyramids now. Have you seen that? Now you know there is something really important in there! |
Nothing is true User ID: 1249102 United Kingdom 01/30/2011 05:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thing is.... the so called egyptians who live in egypt are just a parasitic race no more original than the maggots of a wasp that infest a caterpillar.... then hatch out of it and eat its insides Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1249111WHY would a race of people slave for ... apparently.. hundreds of years to build these pyramids and monuments then come along all of a sudden and use the coating and blocks to make a city and house the common man? simple answer.. these people are thieves not only of jewels and riches.. but of the very land it sits on they are NOT destroying their own history it is someone elses The very same thing happened with many of Britain's megalithic monuments. Everything is permitted.. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 970712 Poland 01/30/2011 05:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These dumb asses don't know how to do an uprising. They should bring back the guillotine and start beheading the crooks with their heads and necks facing the blade; just like the most criminal were executed...think French Revolution. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1248431 United Kingdom 01/30/2011 05:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Those stupid bastards! Quoting: Only MeOh look at that - a Zionist expresses outrage at the destruction of an old dead body (and rightly so) yet fails to express outrage at the destruction and murder of thousands of lives during the reign of a brutal dictator and in fact implicitly supports him. |
jamesofthecommons User ID: 1249127 United States 01/30/2011 05:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Quoting: SheldonCooperThe army was on guard at Egypt’s most popular tourist sites last night after two 2,000-year-old mummies in the country’s national museum were destroyed by looters attempting to steal the treasures of King Tutankhamun. Soldiers were positioned at the Pyramids and Cairo’s Egyptian Museum – the holding place for Tutankhamun’s priceless golden mask and other artifacts – on the fifth day of anti-government demonstrations in the country’s capital. Nine men broke into the Egyptian Museum in the early hours of yesterday, taking advantage of damage caused to the building’s security by a fire in the neighbouring headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party. They were caught by police and a crowd of civilians while carrying out the skulls of two mummies and two statues estimated to be more than 2,000 years old. One statue, believed to be of Tutankhamun, was broken into two pieces by the thieves, although officials said they hoped to be able to repair it. Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said: ‘They tried to attack and rob from the showcases of King Tut, but they failed. These people are criminals, they are not true Egyptians. The nine men were caught carrying skulls and two statues, one of which was broken. But the army are now guarding the museum and all the museums are now safe.’ King Tut was an elitist pig who prospered from the subjugation of the people of Egypt;it is a shame that the looters were not able to avenge the injustices caused to their ancestors by pulling of a succsesfull heist of this museum. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 643083 Moldova 01/30/2011 05:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the mind of a mass mind. If you take one man out and ask him what tf are you doing he will feel ashamed, but if you ask the mass they will boycott you. The mass consciousness is very different, it's most dangerous and is centered around action no matter what, destruction is the main goal somehow. THIS shows how primitive our collective consciousness is. It is to be treated as an organism per-se. That's why I am saying let it spread and clean everything around, nature has a "balance" plan for everything, all this even be it war will come to balance in the end, just wait and see it. No more dirty government and jew bankers after that, they either gonna be dead, or fled like cowards to another planets. |