Major archaeological discovery in Egypt. . .in museum basement

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One of the reasons the Pitt Rivers took so long to reopen
http://www.gadling.com/2009/05/21/museum-junkie-england-s-most-unique-museum-reopens/
is that as they were refurbishing they discovered that not everything was cataloged, and so they had to go through the entire collection to make sure everything was recorded correctly.
Cool anecdote about the crossbow. It wasn't one of the famous repeating ("automatic") crossbows, was it?

7-27-2009 @ 7:04AM

Todd K Meadows said...

Not a repeating cross bow in this case. However, he did perfect one with clip on magazines, and a pump action. The only fault in that was, you really needed to stay away from the trigger while reloading with pump action.

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