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Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis
by Renée Friedman

Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt

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!

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zombies!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs and hides* leave my brains alone ><


interesting read btw.

Thankies...did you read the interview with Max Brooks? Very informative <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... #>/yes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(nod)\' />

I didn't *goes to read*


edit: very interesting read as well; some nice information in there

Indeed - with so much information at hand it will be very easy to beat back the Zombies when they spew forth in their next attempt to take over the world <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... #>/yes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(nod)\' />

My friend let me read that book (The Zombie Survival Guide) last year... just for a class period though lol. It was great <3 I loved it. lol.

Mike has World War Z, he's read it more than a few times lol