*giggles*It's actually just average size for a black granite sarcophagus.
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They buried it to stop it hurting the world.
There are procedures to this. First you have to get a bunch of hired workers to open it so they get hit with the curses first. Then you have dartguns filled with mercury at the ready. Sprinkler systems must be retrofitted with bug bombs in case of scarabs. A librarian has to be on staff at all times. Lastly the room needs to have no fewer than 11 cats.
This is actually a problem if humans survive on earth another couple thousand years. People have discussed what sort of language would be universal enough to warn, "The stuff buried here is not valuable, has no historical/archeological value, AND will kill you."Imagine in the future people finding huge sarcophagi and opening them just to find spent nuclear fuel rods...
RadNope. I believe Dr Ayman Ashmawy, head of ancient Egyptian artifacts at the Egypt's ministry of antiquities is leading.
For anyone interested in this problem there is a documentary about a nuclear waste repository in Finland called Into Eternity. One of the issues they face is how to warn anyone who may stumble upon it the far future, when its purpose has been long forgotten, that it's contents are deadly.This is actually a problem if humans survive on earth another couple thousand years. People have discussed what sort of language would be universal enough to warn, "The stuff buried here is not valuable, has no historical/archeological value, AND will kill you."
A human skull / bones is pretty common, but I think I read at least some cultures don't associate that with death or poison the same way we might.
This is actually a problem if humans survive on earth another couple thousand years. People have discussed what sort of language would be universal enough to warn, "The stuff buried here is not valuable, has no historical/archeological value, AND will kill you."
A human skull / bones is pretty common, but I think I read at least some cultures don't associate that with death or poison the same way we might.
And the funny thing is, for any of us in modern times, imagine exploring a pyramid and seeing symbolic drawings about people dying, warning symbols, ancient languages about death awaiting whoever enters. Obviously we would dismiss that as superstition, the stuff movies are made of.For anyone interested in this problem there is a documentary about a nuclear waste repository in Finland called Into Eternity. One of the issues they face is how to warn anyone who may stumble upon it the far future, when its purpose has been long forgotten, that it's contents are deadly.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
"Video footage from the news website Youm7 showed a man pouring the red liquid into the street, after samples were taken to be analysed."
And this is how the zombie apocalypse starts."Video footage from the news website Youm7 showed a man pouring the red liquid into the street, after samples were taken to be analysed."
This seems really hazardous; but go off I guess.
This is about a sarcophagus, not a monolith, despite the superficial similarity.
are the gooey mummies anyone of note or are they too gooey for us to tell?