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Egyptian laborers work at the new construction site of the illegal expansion of a local cemetery that is seen spreading toward Egypt's first pyramids and temples, at the ancient historic site of Dahshour, Egypt. The Black Pyramid, is seen background left and the Bent Pyramid, is seen background right.
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Egyptian farmer and resident of Dahshour village, Ali Orabi rests by his house in Egypt. The illegal expansion of a local cemetery has raised a panic among antiquities experts, who warn that the construction endangers the ancient, largely unexplored complex of Dahshour. At the construction site, residents said they were desperate for new space for burial plots, pointing to old family tombs they said were full. Authorities balked at issuing permits for new tombs or demanded exorbitant fees and bribes, several residents said.
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The new construction site of the illegal expansion of a local cemetery is seen spreading toward Egypt's first pyramids and temples at the ancient historic site of Dahshour, Egypt.
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In the case of Dahshour, villagers say that their cemeteries are full and that authorities don't give permits or land for new ones. So they took matters into their own hands and grabbed what they insist is empty desert to erect family tombs.
"The dearest thing for us is burying our dead," said Mohammed Abdel-Qader, a resident of nearby Manshiet Dahshour. "This land here is wide and flat, it's a valley. Where are the antiquities they talk about? ... We have no antiquities here."
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Looks like the need some illegal Mexicans to lay some bricks.
They're going to release a mummy! Then we'll have a Mummy Apocalypse!!!!
Just wait until the zombies and mummies team up. I think there is the book of the dead and book of life around somewhere.While I have a copy of those and the Book of Breathings.Those should scare the dickens out of any terrorists. Imagine all their victims rising from the graves to exact vengeance! Exactly what do they plan on using for weapons for such beings??? If the ones from Cairo show up, why I think they will even be able to speak English, given the length of time they have been listening.
Egypt is about 80 or 90 % desert isn't it ??? I'm sure these Arab invader villagers can find somewhere else to bury their croaked family members... The envious Islamic Arabs along with the Europeans are the ones who perpetrated most of the damage to the Egyptian monuments... Egypt for Africans, Arabia for Arabs...