#IndianaHoenlein and the Lost Old Kingdom mummy wrapped in gold. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
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#IndianaHoenlein and the Lost Old Kingdom mummy wrapped in gold. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/egyptian-mummy-covered-in-golden-foliage-could-be-the-oldest-ever-discovered/ar-AA16QKyw
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I Am The World. |
| 0:07.0 | That is MacArthur, my colleague and co-host. |
| 0:10.0 | Malcolm Home Line is departed and instead the dusty one is in the studio. |
| 0:14.0 | The Shapo, the Bullwhip, the Bag of Tricks, we go immediately to Egyptology, a discovery |
| 0:22.0 | that Indiana will explain of a mummy between the 25th and 22nd century BCE, perhaps the oldest mummy ever discovered. |
| 0:32.0 | Indiana, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:34.0 | What is to you the significance of this mummy since you were looking for gold? Good evening. |
| 0:40.0 | Good evening. Well, this is a very important discovery. Probably oldest mummy found it was at the bottom of a 50-foot shaft. |
| 0:48.0 | In the tomb, they uncovered the 43-year-old remains covered with gold leaf inside a limestone suffocates and they even think they know the name, which was Hecachepis. |
| 1:01.0 | And being buried at the burial dates in the 23rd century BCE, they also uncovered some of the tombs of other royal and religious officials, including one, a mummy, who was the keeper of the secrets. |
| 1:15.0 | And assistant to the great leader of the palace and a second shaft that included the sarcophagus and mummified remains of a man with the description identifying a mospetic and many others, including statues and including one of a husband and wife with their servants. |
| 1:33.0 | So this is really a very important discovery. It's a car which was then the populace for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, which was discovered about five years ago, but these tombs have provided incredible finds and will continue to be a very rich source of information about that period. |
| 1:52.0 | And so Indiana, you're satisfied that this is the frontier. This is fresh information. You know or deal about mummies and the discoveries. I was struck by the gold part. What significance is that, Indiana? |
| 2:07.0 | Obviously it was wealthy and it preserves. So this and this was preserved because it was at the bottom of this 50 foot shaft. And the that was they came upon the team that was operating in the region, but it's also because it was the down was preserved in the way that it was. |
| 2:28.0 | And it's probably the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt today. That is Indiana. There's a movement in Congress to introduce legislation to rectify a historical wrong committed against those who helped save Jewish lives during World War II. What can you tell us about that? |
| 2:46.0 | We have about a minute. Indiana, go ahead. |
| 2:48.0 | Very quickly that it's your colleagues are doing, doing an injustice that was visited upon people around the world who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II, including two Americans, Harry Bingham, Iram Harry Bingham, who was a vice consul in Marseille, France. |
| 3:04.0 | And Mr. Geist, who was the first secretary of US Embassy in Berlin from 1929 to 1939 after the war, Harry Bingham, particularly was driven out of the State Department as were people in other countries. |
| 3:19.0 | Susagara, we know some of the names, but this is the first time where they're really going to be honored in the US, a two United States senators introduced this resolution that will honor 60 diplomats with pastures congressional gold medals for their courageous work. |
| 3:33.0 | At the time, they were many of them were left penniless without jobs, their careers ruined because they did the right thing and stood up and saved the lives of many significant individuals who contributed greatly after the war. |
| 3:47.0 | And they called it constructive dissent, award on behalf of American Foreign Policy Association, was recognized a few years ago, but for decades, they lived in disgrace. |
| 4:00.0 | Indiana, online bag of tricks out on the road, that is MacArthur, I'm John Huff. |
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