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MAG 64 - Burial Rites
The Magnus Archives
Archaeology - I Was Never Going to Be a Teacher
Donna Gwyn worked for a man named Starbo. He organized rapid turnaround illegal digs, taking whatever high value fines were transportable and selling them to private collectors. The Egyptian government had denied permission for the dig so we got word that it was possible in what is now known as the Red Sea complex between Cairo and the Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania. This last excavation was high risk but I won't go into specifics about how many people died or anything like that. It's not my job to tell you if there are any bodies still alive who have been dug up by this team because they don't want their names made public. We're just trying to find out where all these artifacts came from
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