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August 2010 Where The Heck Is It?
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Clues for this month
This faded and blurry photo was recently discovered by a crack team of Egyptologists. It was stuffed into the space between two of the stones lining the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Khufu. It had been overlooked for all these years and was only found when their leader, Sir Griffith Wheezel, dropped his monocle…and the entire crew had to scurry about on hands and knees to find it in the low light.
The derrick in the foreground is one of the first wells ever drilled by BP Petroleum company...although ‘BP’ stood for ‘Before (the) Pyramids’ in that long ago day. And therefore, this may be the world’s oldest known photograph…some 4500 years old. How remarkable!
Or do you disagree?
If so…
1. Where do you think this derrick is located?
2. Whose pyramids are those in the distance?
3. And who do you think actually drilled that well?
Bring your answers to the August ARCE meeting. The winner will get a ticket for the book raffle!
[Rules]
August 21, 2010
(Saturday night)
John Shearman ,
American Research Center in Egypt
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Fondren Science Building, Room 123
7:30pm
OUR NEXT SEMINAR
October 30, 2010
(All Day Saturday )
Barry Kemp,
University of Cambridge
"How Akhenaten Viewed Amarna"
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