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 Post subject: Ancient "Salt Cured" Man Found in Iranian Mine
PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:40 pm 
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Pretty interesting story... They believe he himself was a salt miner in ancient times.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... t-man.html

Heres a couple more articles about it..

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7135

http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news ... i/10/16283

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:05 pm 
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That's pretty cool...
I hope they can preserve that site.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:38 pm 
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Yeah that is really interesting. I'd like to find more information on how they discovered the site. To me it sounds like the men could have been trapped in this section of the mine and were discovered when the active mine broke into this chamber of the abandoned historic mine. It would be very interesting to see this site saved. If the old mine is in good shape still, there could be tons of historical remains still left in the mine. Very neat...

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