There was no doubt that the stone had been found wrapped in tree roots. And all the witnesses who had signed affidavits regarding the age of the tree stated it was at least twenty-five to thirty years old when Olof found the stone. Secrets of the Viking Stone VI: The Discovery
It [stone] was in the ground before he [Olof] even got here. And we’ve proved that. ibid.
According to Scott, the Knights Templar had been using the hooked X for centuries … The hooked X was carved on other rune stones that had been found right here in these United States. ibid.
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry: The press called him Indiana Jones. A daring tomb raider who looted ancient artefacts from Egypt. His accomplices idolised him as a master of deception. He was a top player in a dangerous game. Masterminds e25: The Cairo Caper
One of the most ingenious smugglers of the twentieth century. ibid.
The Bayeaux Tapestry is an extraordinary work of art. Made in the 11th century it tells the incredible story of the Norman conquest of England. Betrayal, bravery, invasion, and bloody battle. It is a truly epic saga. Nearly seventy metres in length, the tapestry depicts hundreds of characters, animals, buildings and ships, illustrating the end of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon era and the beginning of the age of chivalry. The tapestry still holds many mysteries: who commissioned it, who created it, where was it made and for what purpose? Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry, BBC 2022
The Egyptians believed in an intricate and vast afterlife. Each mummified corpse was expected to resurrect in another world for which there was only one guide: the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The name given to scrolls entombed with the mummified dead in ancient Egypt. Egyptian Book of the Dead, History 2006
Archaeologists have uncovered more than twenty-five thousand copies of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The oldest text dating from 1,500 B.C. The latest from the 4th century A.D. But it is here at the British Museum in the heart of twenty-first century London that the famous Scroll of Ani, the finest example of the Egyptian Book of the Dead ever preserved, can be seen. ibid.
The Scroll was brought from Egypt in 1887 by a Museum curator, Doctor Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge. He was a prolific author ... Yet there are those who say Budge was a second-rate scholar, a poor archaeologist and a cultural thief acquiring antiquities by any means possible. ibid.
In the autumn of 1887 the Museum sent him to Egypt on an artefact collecting expedition. ibid.
When Wallis Budge arrived in Egypt in 1887 the country was controlled by a European coalition. Following a nationalist rebellion in 1882 Great Britain and France shared control of the country and the vital Suez Canal. Their coalition would control the politics and economy of Egypt for decades. But it was an uncomfortable union. And men like Budge didn’t make the alliance any easier. ibid.
Whether Budge was a scholar, an adventurer or even a thief the Scroll of Ani was his greatest contribution to the world of Egyptology. He never made a greater find. Nor has anyone ever discovered any other scrolls as artistic or complete as Ani’s Book of the Dead. ibid.