DEADLY SPIDER IN ANCIENT EGYPT
A week after receiving Ayman's e-mail, Dr Shereen had an e-mail message from an archaeologist in Egypt. In reply to her request about deadly spiders in ancient Egypt, he sent a very old picture that was found in a tomb near Bawiti. The picture was of a black and yellow spider like the one in her text. She had a shiver of fear when she remembered Ayman's description of the spider he saw. She forwarded that message to Ayman. A minute later, she received a chat request from Ayman.
A CHAT ABOUT THE SPIDER
In their conversation, Ayman said the picture of the spider was the same as the one he had seen. Dr Shereen mentioned the spider might have come from Bawiti. Ayman believed the spider might have come to their town in the boxes brought from the archaeological site to the police station. As there were no killer spiders in modern Egypt, he thought it was not possible to have killer spiders. She hoped he was right and advised him to tell the police and to photograph the spider if he saw it again.
THE SPIDER IN A MEDICAL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXT
Dr Shereen received an e-mail from a German Egyptologist stating that he had translated a 2000 year old text about an ancient Egyptian medicine for the bite of the black and yellow spider that killed. It was made from the root of a certain plant. This meant that the spiders were real as they were mentioned in a medical text.
MEETING A ZOOLOGIST
The next morning Dr Shereen went to a friend who was a zoologist. Her name was Susan Bennett. She could not identify the spider in the picture of the ancient Egyptian text. Susan tried to find that spider on the database. Into her computer she put a CD that contained a list of all the known species of spider in the world. She said there were thirty thousand ones and the number went up as new species were discovered. Six names and pictures came onto the screen but didn't match the description of the spider they wanted. Susan decided to discuss the matter with the Head of their department, Professor Malcolm Jones.
THE OPINION OF THE HEAD OF THE ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Susan took Dr Fakhry and met Professor Malcolm Jones. He welcomed the two women. Then, he had a telephone call in another room that angered him. He had to cancel the trip he was going to make to South America the next day. The aim of that trip was to find unknown species of arachnids there. He noticed that Dr Fakhry was not keen on spiders. He believed they are useful because they eat insects.
PROFESSOR JONES IS INTERESTED IN THE SPIDER'S STORY
When the Professor was told about the Spider seen by Ayman, he got interested. He became sure Ayman described the spider before seeing that picture. Dr Fakhry wondered why nobody else saw any of these spiders. He said they possibly lived in cool places in the hot desert. When people disturbed them, they came into our world. They lived under the desert for thousands of years. They were the only survivors when the climate changed two thousand years ago.
THAT SPIDER IS A GREAT DANGER
That spider was a great danger to Ayman and his family. Dr Fakhry said hospitals could treat spider bites. The professor agreed that a doctor could give an antivenom to treat their bites. However, there was no antivenom for that species of spider because it was unknown and a new antivenom would take years to be a safe one. The Hamdayya was also in danger. The whole country was in danger. Egypt is the meeting point of three continents, so they were in danger. The spider was a female. So its family would develop quickly. Within a few weeks, there would be millions of them.
THE PROFESSOR'S DICISION TO GO TO EGYPT
The professor decided to go to Egypt and find that unknown species of the spider. He travelled by plane the next morning. He wrote an e-mail to Ayman which he forgot to send
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