Bats in the Tombs!

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(Vasara dictating) In the fourth tomb that we visited in the city of Axum, we turned on the lights when we went inside. This tomb had collapsed earlier, but now there were supporting beams. Inside the tomb, there were pictures of elephants and crosses carved into the walls. The guide told us the history, but Rytas and I were busy exploring the tomb chambers. We shone the flashlight into one tomb and something flew over our heads. ‘EEEK!’ We didn’t know what it was. First, we thought it was a bird, but then we saw that it was a bat. It was a bat! No, it was a lot of bats! It was scary. We ducked. Then we saw that they were scared. There were about 50 bats hanging from the tomb ceiling. It was cool.

In the Tomb of the False Door, the ancient people had a guard live underground in the tomb. There was a little window in which people gave the guard food so that he could live. It was neat to run around in the different rooms of this large tomb. I wouldn’t want that guard's job.

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