Zombie Attack in Ancient Egypt!

[Queasy]

Archaeology.org

Hierakonpolis is a site famous for its many "firsts," so many, in fact, it is not easy to keep track of them all. So we are grateful(?) to Max Brooks for bringing to our attention that the site can also claim the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In his magisterial tome, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), he informs us that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies. In addition, thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out!

Worth the click through. Very entertaining.

 

[effowe]

Just in case anyone was wondering, there weren't any real zombies. You can all put your shotguns away, for now.

 

[pontifex]

The most important of these describes "Solanum", the fictional virus that creates zombies

 

[michaels]

Zombies? Is this some kind of joke site?

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: michaels
Zombies? Is this some kind of joke site?

It is some archaeologists having fun.

 

[gar3555]

dang it...i was ready, had the fort doors closed, my lifetime supply of twinkies and shotgun shells ready.

 

[shiner]

REPOST!!!

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