mojo
02-23-2008, 09:10 PM
The earliest documented zombie's in recorded history may have been found at the archaeological dig at Hierakonpolis. :!:
www.archaeology.org (http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html)
Hierakonpolis is a site famous for its many "firsts," so many, in fact, it is not easy to keep track of them all. So we are grateful(?) to Max Brooks for bringing to our attention that the site can also claim the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In his magisterial tome, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), he informs us that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies. In addition, thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out!
However here we are concerned with real zombies, reanimated bodies of the recent dead who are driven by an urge to consume living people, in turn, creating more zombies. The idea that zombies are supernatural beings needs to be discarded. They are not the Spawn of Hell, although, they certainly look the part. They are, or were, people who were infected by the Solanum virus. The virus creates a zombie by eating away the frontal lobe of the brain for replication, thus destroying it. The virus mutates the brain and allows the brain to remain alive but dormant and without the need for oxygen. Once the mutation is complete, approximately 23 hours from infection to fully functioning zombie, the ghoul will be on the unending search for living human flesh, thus spreading the infection (Brooks 2003: 2).
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/mojo4sale/solanum-virus.jpg
:lol: :D archaeologists with nothing better to do. The best part is all the sites that are running with the story, classic stuff.
hitsusa.com/blog (http://hitsusa.com/blog/296/solanum-virus/)
tailrank.com (http://tailrank.com/3690715/Zombie-Attack-at-Hierakonpolis)
touregypt.net (http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3134)
ROFLMAO
www.archaeology.org (http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html)
Hierakonpolis is a site famous for its many "firsts," so many, in fact, it is not easy to keep track of them all. So we are grateful(?) to Max Brooks for bringing to our attention that the site can also claim the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In his magisterial tome, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), he informs us that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies. In addition, thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface of the tomb, as if the corpse had tried to claw its way out!
However here we are concerned with real zombies, reanimated bodies of the recent dead who are driven by an urge to consume living people, in turn, creating more zombies. The idea that zombies are supernatural beings needs to be discarded. They are not the Spawn of Hell, although, they certainly look the part. They are, or were, people who were infected by the Solanum virus. The virus creates a zombie by eating away the frontal lobe of the brain for replication, thus destroying it. The virus mutates the brain and allows the brain to remain alive but dormant and without the need for oxygen. Once the mutation is complete, approximately 23 hours from infection to fully functioning zombie, the ghoul will be on the unending search for living human flesh, thus spreading the infection (Brooks 2003: 2).
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/mojo4sale/solanum-virus.jpg
:lol: :D archaeologists with nothing better to do. The best part is all the sites that are running with the story, classic stuff.
hitsusa.com/blog (http://hitsusa.com/blog/296/solanum-virus/)
tailrank.com (http://tailrank.com/3690715/Zombie-Attack-at-Hierakonpolis)
touregypt.net (http://touregypt.net/teblog/egyptologynews/?p=3134)
ROFLMAO