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| | Guardian Unlimited | Life | Time to turn back tourist tide in Valley of the Kings |
 | | The Japanese government is to finance a more discreetly designed visitor centre, and engineers could move parking lots, tear up the valley's Tarmac roads and instead spray polymer on the sand, gravel and limestone bedrock, to provide a long-lasting surface that would mimic the look of ancient desert roads. |
 | | By the time it has been swept over the cliff into the valley proper, it is moving at 20mph an hour, perhaps 50cm deep, down the valley floor and of course washing into any low-lying tombs in its path," he said. |
 | | However, a recent study found that most of the other 25 westerners present when the tomb was opened went on to live to an average age of 70. |
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