Egypt held a competition

Egypt held a competition to guess the age of a mummy. France, Germany and the U.S. sent archaeologists. Indonesia sent a military officer. The French team spent two hours with the mummy, then gave up. The Americans spent longer, but their guess was wrong. The German team estimated 3,200 years–also wrong. The Indonesian military officer asked if he could study the mummy in a closed room. Fifteen minutes later he emerged and said the mummy was 5,224 years, three months and seven days old. The jury was amazed–he was exactly right and won the prize. As he was leaving the Cairo airport, journalists asked him how he got the answer. “I hit him black and blue until he confessed.”