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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 696531, member: 6370"]<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253820674074&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253820674074&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253820674074&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull</a> Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo's Al Ahram newspaper recently reported. Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt.  According to the report, the significance of the find is that archeologists have found scientific evidence countering the claim held by some historians that coins were not used for trade in ancient Egypt, and that this was done through barter instead.  The period in which Joseph was regarded to have lived in Egypt matches the minting of the coins in the cache, researchers said.  little bitty photo of what they say are coins dating to 16th-17th Century BC? <img src="http://www.memri.org/images/uploaded/sp_2561_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Needless to say...I am suspicious[/QUOTE]