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Dutch student finds tomb in Egypt
ReplyDeleteA student of botanical archeology of Groningen university, Jeroen van Rooij, during a trip for study in Egypt accidentally found a still unknown tomb.
The tomb was probably made for a rich Egyptian from the eighteenth dynasty period, about 1400 BCE, Van Rooij states from Egypt.
The student found the tomb as he and three others during a desert trek stopped below a small hill.
When Van Rooij climbed the hill, he found four deep holes on top.
One of these holes turned out to lead to a big tomb.
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