Folks,
Sorry, I realized my mistake last night - It was wheat not corn !!
At 08:24 PM 3/8/01 -0500, Leckstein wrote:
>At 01:08 PM 03/08/2001 -0500, Barrie Robinson wrote:
> >Folks at world,
>
>
> The one thing that is making me lean towards
> >leather is that they only found two things in the Egyptian tombs that had
> >not rotted - corn and leather treated with bees wax!
>
>Corn? That is amazing. I was always under the impression that corn was a
>new world vegetable, brought back by Columbus. Did the Egyptians have corn?
>I thought wheat came from Egypt not corn. Please correct me on this.
Regards
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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