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Chronicles 20 min

Graffiti in the Valley of the Kings

A Tamil man tagged five pharaohs' tombs and nobody noticed for two thousand years

How ancient travelers from the Indian subcontinent visited the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs 2,000 years ago, leaving behind Sanskrit and Old Tamil inscriptions on the walls. A Swiss professor on vacation noticed what a century of Egyptologists had missed.

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