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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3064223, member: 19463&quot;]You did not read the same stories I did.&nbsp; Both said that the Egyptian tourist folks hoped such trinkets would restore what they lost in the 2011 turmoil.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say the item in question even looks ancient to me but I am no expert.&nbsp; There is a tendency for all items found to be identified as some emperor or famous person.&nbsp; I wonder if there are any statues of well to do merchants who fancied themselves as resembling the emperor and wore his hair in the same way? </p><p><br /></p><p>I admit I have a really bad attitude about scientific/historical discoveries.&nbsp; Anyone who discovers a bone in the Eastern Mediterranean seems to attribute it to a Biblical figure.&nbsp; Helena, mother of Constantine, toured the Holy Lands and was sold the True Cross.&nbsp; Some discoveries that really might be genuine are hard to separate from the fabrications of the tourist people.&nbsp; I was taught in college that the True Cross of Helena had grown in mass to the point that by the middle ages there was enough to rebuild Noah&#039;s Ark.&nbsp;&nbsp; You still see occasional offerings of wood pulp mixed with clay sold as &#039;Pilgrims Tokens&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.pearlmansjewelers.com/information/christian-pilgrim-token-history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pearlmansjewelers.com/information/christian-pilgrim-token-history/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pearlmansjewelers.com/information/christian-pilgrim-token-history/</a></p><p>We need to take care when we evaluate wonderful new discoveries.&nbsp; The place to start when gathering evidence is not the daily paper or TV news spots.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure where it is safe to read but articles like these tend to have issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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