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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7409264, member: 84905&quot;]A few years ago I was in Luxor, Egypt and I stayed in the famous Winter Palace Hotel. Behind the reception I noticed a board with several paleolithic hand axes fixed to it. The receptionist told me that a colleague had found them decades ago in the dessert near the valley of the kings. I went for a hike there an lo and behold I found several Acheulean hand axes and very very many neolithic blades and points. The area had apparently been fertile many millennia ago and deposits from the paleolithic to the neolithic accumulated in the soil. When the fertile soil dissappeared the stone artefacts remained in place and in some places they litter the ground. Needless, to say that I left them where they were, not least because it is strictly forbidden to take any artefacts out of Egypt.</p><p>Nevertheless, the feeling of picking up an object that someone had dropped thousands and even hundredthousands of years is quite an experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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