I had a "feeling" alligators will come up and someone would point out to me the same difference between them and crocs, and you, Roxane, are always kind enough to correct me in such factual matters.The difference between to two, and that they co-exist in Florida is "a little known fact" only to people who don't watch nature programs on TV

I don't think evidence of crocs eating kings is necessary because even by the longest strech of imagination it can't be seen, as I reasoned in my posts, which take some mind-acrobatics to follow, sorry.

I suppose we're all coroc'd out, BUT, there is yet another possibilty in of how a living king may have fallen prey to a croc. I remembered the present day Egyptians have a saying equivelant to our "not for all the tea in China . . .", it is "not for all the gold and diamonds in Lake Karoon . . ."

The major town by the Lake Karoon/karun/Quarun, or Birket Quarun, in the Fayoum or el Faiyum (I mention all these to save correctional time ), where the AE grew flowers for perfume, unless they went to Punt, was called "Crocodilopolis" at the time of Herodotus, and the lake was called "Moeris", "mer", to which we can add "Meer" in German, Mara, the world ocean on old maps, the "bitter lake" etc., but that would go down the philosophical path, not credible in the "real world."

It stands to reason the the kings of AE knew of this lake with a great treasure on the bottom, so it is intirely plausible that one or several of the Egyptian rulers went boating there looking for the treasure, and if their boats were anything like they are today, a good size crocodile could have swallowed the boat and king alive never to be seen again.

Fish from Lake Karoon are delicious, of course the people there know of the legend and actually did asked if I wanted to take a boat out on "the friendly water", and joke about finding the gold. I said, thank you, not for all the tea in China. "Nono not tea, I says gold - you want tea? We bringe tea."



Charlotte