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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2919329, member: 87200&quot;]I posted this in Galba 68&#039;s brick thread but since it is an interesting little story I thought I&#039;d repeat it...it touches on the issue of what is legal and what isn&#039;t</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a couple of pot sherds and an amulet from Hermopolis Magna (Egypt). They came from near the temple of Thoth. This was a site with very long habitation from pre-Pharaonic through Ptolemaic and Roman periods. The town is now called El-Ashmunein and it is on the west bank of the Nile. Across the river and 2km to the north is the site of the ill-fated city Antinopolis, named after Hadrian&#039;s favorite. The guard insisted I take them as a gift after he walked me around the site, and after I had paid him 100 Egyptian pounds as baksheesh.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since he was carrying around an AK-47 I thought that it was a good idea to do what he said. I also sat down for awhile near the temple gateway and smoked a shisha (water pipe) with two policemen.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an area that&#039;s off the beaten path for tourism, so they don&#039;t get too many visitors. There also were some very nice Greek inscriptions remaining near the center of the old city, carved in stone, and piles of mud-brick everywhere. The ancients wrote that the city had five and six story buildings back in early Roman times.&nbsp; I thought of going to the ruins of Antinopolis but it is mostly off limits to visitors since the locals believe it to be haunted by evil jinn. Photo to be posted later on...when I get home.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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