Origyptian Wrote:
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> Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > Yeah.. Heinrich Himmler was also really a nice
> > guy. He just found himself in the midst of a
> > systemic failure.
>
> And I have no doubt that some plantation owners
> were "nice" to their slaves, perhaps only
> punishing them in solitary confinement or selling
> off a mother's child as punishment rather than
> beating or starving her. What heroes, eh?
>
> Frankly, I can't get past the enigma that there is
> zero record of any record of the crate after the
> letter to Forshall.
>
> There is zero record of any insurance payout other
> than reimbursing the British Museum for paying
> Hill to ship a wooden crate from Cairo to
> Alexandria. Why would there not be any official
> record of what surely would have been a much
> larger shipping bill from Alexandria to Liverpool
> for a "sarcophagus lost at sea"?
>
> We have record of several documents discussing the
> process of removing a sarcophagus from G3, packing
> it up in a wooden crate, and shipping it to
> Alexandria. There is that single letter to
> Forshall assuring him the crate has been loaded
> into the Beatrice in Alexandria, with no official
> dock record of that.
>
> And then it all breaks down. Nothing after that.
> Where did the Beatrice go? When did it go there?
> What was it carrying? Who was on board? Where did
> it sink? Any survivors? No record of any of it
> other than a single vague listing in Lloyd's that
> it was "lost at sea" without a single shred of
> evidence other than it being MIA.
>
> No record of the crate actually leaving Alexandria
> on any ship. No record of any shipping bill from
> Alexandria and no record of any other insurance
> payout. We are only left with a few draft letters
> addressed to the BM written by Vyse's team
> informing the Museum of the
> intention to deliver a sarcophagus
> with zero evidence that any such transaction ever
> took place. Even the small chunk of basalt at the
> Museum can't be verified to have originated in any
> sarcophagus, let alone from G3. It's not on
> display at the Museum, and there isn't even a
> photo of it...

And has what to do w/ 'chemical analysis'.....???

No record that YOU know of...I've suggested checking into the Port Of Alexandria Archives for a Bill Of Lading, etc, many times.

The 'transaction' didn't take place, because the Beatrice sank to the bottom of the Sea.