Personal!y I credit Khufu's ego for the size. Which kept getting revised upward.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Nope. Not even a little bit. Maths are not my thing.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
That reason being playing number games is intensely boring to those of us not into numerology!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Well that's asinine!
Evidence that the GP is a tomb includes the fact that it contains a sarcophagus, is linked to a mortuary temple and stands in the middle of a necropolis! QED!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
"It's true, I've got to stop reading the inscriptions on ancient door seals out loud," Whitson said. "I also need to quit dusting off medallions set into strange sarcophagi, allowing the light to hit them for the first time in centuries. And replacing the jewels that have fallen from the foreheads of ancient frog-deity statues—that's just bad archaeological practice.
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Roxana Cooper
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Paper Lens
This is true evil archaeology!
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Roxana Cooper
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Paper Lens
In Edwardian England elite women wore elaborate jewelry of precious stones including tiaras, did that mean they were the ones with power? Not exactly.
Adorning one's womenfolk has been a way for men to show off their wealth and consequence in many societies. This lady was obviously an important person but that doesn't make her society matriarchal.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
The Dean is clearly a cat lover.
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
Myths of lost land are a dime a dozen. Atlantis existed only in Plato's imagination.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
What does the !ocal Indian community have to say? Assuming there is one.
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
Obey The Daleks! Obey! Obey!
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
Sounds like a darned interesting place without the fantasy!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
According to the Old Testament it was a very long struggle with lots of backsliding.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Didn't they have a Star Trek episode about that?
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Roxana Cooper
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Laboratory
I can't say I'm at all surprised. The OT make it clear ancient Hebrews had problems with the austerity of a sexless monotheistic God.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Oh please!
This, folks, is why I really hate the Great Pyramid.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Having read the Old Testament accounts of the Ark I suggest it's best it stays lost. That thing was DANGEROUS!! We Jews don't have a Temple to keep it in anymore nor a dedicated priestly class to guard it.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Very interesting articles. It's nice to get the latest word on actual excavation of Gebel Tepe as opposed to alterno maunderings which is what one gets when one Google's the subject.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Khentkawes I's family relationships are unfortunately purely conjectural. All we can say is she was important and powerful and identified with the Fourth dynasty. Who her father, husband and son or sons were we don't know. It seems safe to assume she was the bridge between the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties given the location of her tomb and use of her name by later queens but exactly how w
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Royal Families of Ancient Egypt discusses the two possible translations and Khentkawes' I
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
There is another reading of Khentkawes' title; 'Dual King and Mother of a Dual King'. A tiny image showing Khentkawes I with a royal beard and her massive monument provide some support for the possibility she was a ruling queen. The use of her name by subsequent royal ladies suggests that her status was accepted, maybe even celebrated by her fifth Dynasty sucessors. KKI seems to be
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide the universe isn't just curved, it's totally bent.
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Roxana Cooper
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Laboratory
Sounds questionable to me. And kind of irrelevant. The Temple in Jerusalem may not have been first but it's the longest used .
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
As I read it he's suggesting that maybe Canaanite workers identified the sphynx with their God. It seems a little far-fetched to me too. The identification was most probably made by the Egyptians as they incorporated Haroun into their pantheon.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
What ever happened about that cache of thirty odd very nice painted coffins and their Mummies? They seem to have just disappeared from the news. Because they're not royal?
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt