Posted by Magna on 10/26/2007, 12:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Classical Holmes?" --Previous Message--
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Probably left what was left of a horse and it's rider killed at the colloseum.
: Why they ate it of course! rlol Eeww, that's a
: gross thought....
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: That's realy interesting though about the
: Egyptians. I'd love to see just exactly what
: that Centaur really was...
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: I'd like to know what they did with the
: honey
: afterwards - waste not want not!
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: Awesome... I'd liked to seen how they made
: the
: centaur was made.
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: Apparently, honey was pretty commonly used
: in
: ancient times to transport corpses long
: distances (so that they could be buried at
: home). The Egyptians probably invented this
: use.
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: The most famous use of this technique was
: apparently with Alexander the Great, as they
: not only brought him home to his tomb in
: Egypt in a coffin filled with honey, but
: actually put him on exhibit there in a glass
: coffin held together with silver and filled
: with honey.
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: At one point, the alleged body of a centaur
: was put on display in Rome in such a coffin.
: (Sounds like a Roman sideshow hoax to
: me....)
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: So Holmes was displaying his interest in the
: science and engineering of classical times
: by embalming himself in honey -- in a
: glass-windowed coffin, to boot! (And so were
: DiC's writers.)
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