The Completely Pointless Thread

[Rhubarb]

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This is the last time this shit will be outside of Egypt forever and I'll be damned if I don't get to see it!

You could come and see the mummies in Dorchester. There is a Tut Museum in the town. Real artifacts and several real mummies. It's weird seeing them knowing they were once Kings and Queens, and they were so young!

The Banks Family (back to Corfe Castle) were extremely rich and financed much of the trips to Egypt, and were paid with things brought back, gold head dresses, statues, tombs, even some of the walls with paintings on, and the bodies too.
It can be a bit gross

Most of it is in Dorchester or in the Egyptian room in Kingston Lacey House (where the family lived in the 19th century).
They started a school at Canford, one of the highly regarded boarding schools and the fees are mega now (What I earn in a year is a pupil fee). They had a coffee shop in the grounds with a stone wall they wanted to knock down to make it bigger. It hit the National press, because the surveyor realised the Eygptian carvings were not fake (as thought by the school) but a piece of tomb missing from records in Egypt!
The Banks Family had stolen it.
It was sold at auction for a huge stupid amount (I think its in America now).
So the school got its new premises and the rest of the money is invested to sponsor gifted pupils at the school.