[Sca-cooks] noncooking topic

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear replied to me with:
<<< Heat, moisture and light are tend to cause damage to tombs and their 
contents, so if you're serious about protecting them, don't worry about 
respiratory protection, throw the tourists out. >>>

And Aruvqan said:
<<< "Pharaoh's Curse" is effectively fungal spores that can rip through the 
respiratory system, think black mold just ancient ... they can also get 
into breaks in the skin. One really should be wearing latex gloves as 
well. Tombs are *nasty* little petrie dishes. >>>

I wasn’t so much worried about the humans hurting the mummies, but their envoironment. For instance, if you find some unusual fungus or microorganism, if you go in unprotected, you don’t really know if that organism survived from 4000 years ago, or whether the inspectors introduced it. And after you’ve introduced the tourists, all bets are off.

Maybe too much reading about Mars colonization. :-)

That is a reasonable explanation for the “Pharaoh’s Curse”.

Stefan

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