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What it's like to crawl inside a 3,500-year-old Egyptian tomb
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What it's like to crawl inside a 3,500-year-old Egyptian tomb

By Ben Wedeman, CNN

Updated 1109 GMT (1909 HKT) September 24, 2017

Luxor, Egypt (CNN)A man in a gray robe and white headscarf brushes the dust, undisturbed for thousands of years, off a human skull, one of many messily discarded by grave robbers.
"They were searching for gold and jewelry, and when they didn't find it they just threw everything over here," says Ali Farouq al-Gaftawi, the veteran foreman at the excavation at Draa Abu Al-Naga, a barren desert hillside overlooking the lush, green Nile Valley.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/23/middleeast/luxor-tomb/index.html