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- From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 21:31:16 GMT
- Organization: N.I.C.E.
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- In Sunday's San Francisco Examiner there's an article which may shed a
- small bit of lite on this subject. It's on page B-8 & titled, "Study
- of skeletons reveals harsh life of poor in Egypt", by Mimi Mann. The
- subjects are workers of the Old Kingdom from the Giza area. I don't
- have time to type the article in, but as it came from AP it may also
- appear in other papers around North America.
-
- "'Their spines were bent from carrying heavy loads,' [Azza El-Din] said.
- 'There's bone inflammation, causing discomfort."
-
- "Similar stress is visible in the bones of workers' wives & children
- but is absent from the skeletons of officials & their families...."
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-