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Britain's answer to 'King Tut's tomb' found on roadside
Excited archeologists on Thursday hailed an ancient burial site found on the side of a road near a pub and a budget supermarket as Britain's answer to the tomb of Egypt's King Tutankhamun.
The small bump on a patch of grass in the county of Essex just northeast of London did not look like much when UK researchers first spotted it in 2003.
"The thing that's so strange about it is that it was such an unpromising-looking site," Museum of London Archaeology's (MOLA) director of research Sophie Jackson said.
But a team of 40 MOLA archeologists still decided to give it a shot.
Years of meticulous digging and carbon dating have now led them to conclude that they have stumbled onto an Anglo-Saxon burial chamber of a prince whose likes have never before been found in Britain.
The 1,400-year-old tomb is believed to be the oldest example of a Christian Anglo-Saxon royal burial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @04:58PM (3 children)
Arthur was a Briton, a descendant of the wave of immigrant scum from Europe who took over the British Isles sometime in the first millennia BC ( or second, depending..)
This corpse?, from what I've read so far, was a member of a wave of immigrant scum from Europe who flooded the country after the old Western Roman Empire collapsed mid the first millennia AD and eventually took over the area of the Isles now known as England.
So, sorry, no, wrong kind of immigrant scum to be Arthur.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Saturday May 11 2019, @07:27PM (2 children)
This guy is an Essex man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_man [wikipedia.org] , a race unto themselves. Stereotyped factory working class Tory voter, who wears braces because a belt won't fit round his beer belly. Essex girls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_girl [wikipedia.org] are red hot though (until they get fat), so I'm told.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @10:43PM
Don't know if that is a jibe aimed at me, the AC, or at the corpse...either way lets's run with it.
Essex man is what you get after a thousand years and a bit of inbreeding within the immigrant scum population descended from this corpse's people, their initially limited inferior gene pool, the amount of inbreeding and their general fear of miscegenation breeding the unholy abominations the links you provide allude to.
I've only ever, in my 50 odd years of life on this planet (and some of those years have been decidedly odd..) spent one night in deepest, darkest Essex....I used to think the jokes were just playful over-exaggerations...turns out they don't even begin to scratch the surface..
As I've said before on here, bloody immigrant scum, these 'sceptred' isles have been going right downhill ever since those bloody Beaker people came over here, bringing their strange 'forn' beakery ways....opening the floodgates for all the rest of them...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @11:25PM
Is his name, possibly, "Bruce"?