Skeletons in my closet, and by closet I mean burial mound

You guys have no fucking idea how long it took me to make this post. Blogger seems to hate me--I'm convinced of it. In the evening, such as right now, I get on my laptop ready to blog (because I'm so damn far behind) and for whatever reason, it won't load my pictures. Normally, on what's considered a "fast" internet connection here, my pictures take around 1-2 minutes to load. But the last 3 or so nights, I'll wait for over 5 minutes for just ONE picture and then it gives me the "server busy or unavailable" message. It's really aggravating, not good for my high blood pressure at all. And what pisses me off even more is that the pictures load no problem in the morning, or other off hours. Which leads me to believe that the slow down is related to the shared internet line that the 8 floors in the building share--everyone must be on at night, bringing the connection down to a crawl. Grrrrr.... So this morning before school, I loaded these photos with the intention of blogging about them later, i.e. now (8:30 at night.) Here we go...

These photos are a continuation of the last set of photos from the National Museum. Bahrain has two claims to fame on the ancient history archaeological front--forts (ruins, anyway) and burial mounds. I've posted pictures of the burial mounds before on here, there are literally 100,000 of these things on the island. They, at one point, covered 85% of the total square mileage of Bahrain, but now are primarily just left near the center of the island. Some of these bad boys are nearly 5,000 years old. Sweet. Anyway, the National Museum had re-created one of these mounds with a cut-away so you could see what the inside of one of these looked like. Aside from the first picture (which is a pic of a real skeleton in a pot, the way one of the (many) cultures buried people here at one time), they all show this huge burial mound. They had a little walkway build so you could peer into the burial chamber in the middle of the mound, which was complete with a real skeleton. It was creepy and cool all at the same time.

May my next post go much more quickly.