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Who robbed the pharaohs?

The answer to this question was found by the English archaeologist William Petrie, who, since 1880, has been studying the pyramids for 46 years. Exploring one of the pyramids, Petrie could not find the entrance. Having lost patience, he ordered the Arab workers to cut a tunnel. When it was ready, Petri crawled over it, only to find two looted sarcophagi there. He was very interested in the question of how the robbers entered the pyramid without leaving any traces.

First of all, he decided to explore all the corridors leading from the burial chamber and find a way out. Having overcome the stuffy corridors littered with stones, the completely exhausted Petri reached the entrance, which, contrary to custom, was located on the south side (usually it is located on the north). How did the robbers know about this?

He once again returned to the tomb in the way that the robbers were supposed to move. He met various obstacles, traps, false cameras. If he did not know the way, he would simply get lost in this endless maze. How did the thieves know that if the stairs suddenly broke off in the blind chamber, they should be looked for on the ceiling? How did they get around the stones that reached the ceiling? Petrie concluded that the robbers were well aware of the route and the dangers that lay in wait for them. But still, it should have taken them more than 5 months to go all the way and take out the treasures.

Undoubtedly, the robbers decided on such desecration of the tombs not at all on their own initiative, but following someone's order. Whose? Not hard to guess. Of course, the priests - the only keepers of the secrets of the pyramids. Only they could help the souls of the dead in the land of the dead, reading ritual prayers after the death of the pharaohs, who erected temples in their tombs. Therefore, they attached priests to them, who were paid a lot of money.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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What is mold?

Sometimes it seems that nature constantly opposes man, making his existence difficult. It seems that insects and plants tend to emerge victorious in the fight against humans.

Let us imagine that we are not doing anything, and various phenomena will immediately fall upon us, trying to harm us or our property. One such pest that is hiding and waiting in the wings to attack is mold.

Leave your leather item, cooked food, or fruit jam out in the open instead of putting it in a cold, dry place. And soon there will be mold.

Most often this happens with a piece of bread.

If left in a warm, damp place for several days, the bread will become covered with a whitish cobweb-like coating, as if powdered with black dust.

If this substance is placed under a microscope, we will see that the cobwebs consist of many colorless fibers that have two types of processes. Some end in tiny black balls containing spores. Others - in short - penetrate the bread, being a kind of roots, and extract nutrients. This is mold.

Mold thrives in damp, warm places, especially where there are sufficient nutrients. As a rule, mold appears on dead plants and animals, such as mucosal mold. Other types of mold are parasites that live on living organisms. We often use the generic term "mold" for them.

There are two types of mold. One type reproduces on the surface of leaves, branches, flowers and fruits of plants and trees. Downy mold develops inside plants. It particularly affects potatoes and grapes and is difficult to control.

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