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October 16, 2003
Gilgamesh and Amelia Earhart
"I don't want to say definitely it was the grave of King Gilgamesh, but it looks very similar to that described in the epic," Jorg Fassbinder, of the Bavarian department of Historical Monuments in Munich, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action programme.
The BBC reports the possible discovery of the tomb of Gilgamesh while the Pacific Daily News reports a possible clue to the resting place of Amelia Earhart.
The claim rests on a story told by an 81-year-old World War II veteran who was stationed in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1944 as a gunman for the Marines. The veteran, Saint John Naftel, of Alabama and some local collaborators have identified what they believe may be the gravesite of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, who disappeared somewhere in the Pacific in the summer of 1937 while they were attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 16, 2003 05:39 AM