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violent enthusiasts of war, torture, human sacrifice and painful blood-letting rituals, ''whose king was required to stick a rod through the shaft of his own penis on ceremonial occasions.
The Washington Post photo department, says Quinn, thinks that the "brilliant shaft of multicolored light" is lens flare.
Inside the structure a shaft was dug 28 m (91 ft) into the bedrock where the Djoser’s burial chamber was situated.
The newly spliced structure behaved as a single mechanical entity in all it's subsequent behavior, including an experimentally induced helix hand inversion during which all the cell filaments in the fiber's shaft unwound then twisted back together in the opposite helix hand.
Masons dug a shaft 10 m (33 ft) into the bedrock for Ramses III’s tomb (11) c.1151.