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King Tut returns to his tomb and is pretty upset that all of his stuff, including his favorite pendant with a monkey and a beetle on it, is all missing. Check this out in the Onion.

Well, remember way back when in ancient Thebes, when Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and then did it with his mom and then poked his eyes out? It turns out recently that the Sphinx has gotten its eyes pecked out by some rogue pigeons. No word on the mama.

The pyramid of King Menkauhor was rediscovered at Saqqara.

Donkeys might have been domesticated way back in ancient Egypt, really ancient, like 3,000 BCE according to Fionna Marshall. This seems to be based on the discovery of 10 donkey skeletons found near an Egyptian king’s tomb.

Alexandra Zavis for the LA Times writes about the illegal digging of artifacts in Iraq here.

Darlings, Marjo Korpel has argued that a previously excavated seal is in fact the seal of Ahab’s wife, the infamous Jezebel. However, Christopher Rollston argues that it ain’t.

They Might Be Giants has this AWESOME video about four Mesopotamians and their band here.