Evidence for the use of mathematics in ancient Egypt may be rare, but numbers come up in many religious contexts from the Old Kingdom onwards. However, to date, interest in the ancient use of numbers has come mainly from those studying the history of mathematics.
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Ancient Egypt
Researchers have now uncovered the existence of a queen named Neith, who had remained unknown even to the experts for millennia.
At the Saqqara archaeological site just south of Cairo, researchers unearthed hundreds of tombs, which Live Science reports may have held the closest generals and advisors to King Tut.
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg (440lb) of cannabis seized from dealers and kept in police stations.
"Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It's difficult to protect the drug from them," a court in Uttar Pradesh state has said.
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Hermione
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Coffee Shop
The coin bearing the name of Sponsian and his portrait was found more than 300 years ago in Transylvania, once a far-flung outpost of the Roman empire.
Believed to be a fake, it had been locked away in a museum cupboard.
Now scientists say scratch marks visible under a microscope prove that it was in circulation 2,000 years ago.
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Hermione
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Ancient History
Ancient Apocalypse, a thread
This thread will examine:
1) The rhetoric that Graham Hancock uses to cover up a lack of evidence.
2) How Hancock's account recycles 19th century ideas about Atlantis.
3) How to identify similar conspiracy theories.
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Hermione
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Ancient History
James Platt Jr (1861-1910) is a rather obscure figure in the history of Anglo-Saxon Studies .. This guest blog ... will discuss Platt’s tumultuous life, including his promising youth, subsequent plagiarism and his ultimate return to the ranks of respected scholars.
Tales of the supernatural: Six romantic stories by James Platt -
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Hermione
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Humanities
In 1910 George Andrew Reisner uncovered a greywacke statue of King Menkaure and a womanhe assumed to be the king’s wife, Queen Khamerernebty II (fig. 1)
The pair statue, or dyad, was found in the so–called “Thieves’ Hole” in the western corridor of the king’s Valley Temple.Its original (or intended) location is unknown. The statue shows the striding king beside the woman to his left, who is alm
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Hermione
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
A new study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, suggests that early humans first cooked food around 780,000 years ago. Before now, the earliest evidence of cooked food was around 170,000 years ago, with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthalsusing fire to cook vegetables and meat.
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Ancient History
Paul H. Wrote:
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> Further reading: Dundes, Alan (ed.), 1988. The
> Flood Myth. Berkeley: University of California
> Press.
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I was never very enthused by that. What do other people think?
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Ancient History
Measurement was a crucial organizing principle in ancient Egypt, but
metrology itself does not begin with nilometers. To understand its
place in human culture, we have to trace its roots back further, to
the invention of writing itself.
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Hermione
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Ancient History
The Greek discovery of Iceland more than one thousand years before the
Vikings is supported by new evidence published in The Housman Society
Journal.
Based on an essentially linguistic hypothesis of his own inspiration,
Dr. Andrew Charles Breeze pens the latest attempt to shed light on the
mystery that surrounds the exact location of the legendary Thule — the
world’s northernmost land dis
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Hermione
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Ancient History
A rare flute made from bone has been unearthed at an archaeological site near Herne Bay.
Archaeologists were excavating the 61-hectare site, south of Hillborough, when they discovered the instrument, known as a 'fipple flute'.
It is believed to date back to the 13th-15th Century due to medieval pottery found nearby.
It is thought the flute was made from the tibia shaft of eithe
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Ancient History
QuoteHancock also claims that Maltese temples ... if ... built in 11,000 BCE ... would have aligned with the Sirius constellation.
Work on astronomical alignments in Malta - on the basis of the sort of evidence mentioned by Vella Gregory - was carried out by the late Michael Hoskin - - and others (Title: The orientations of the temples of Malta. Authors: Foderà Serio, G., Hoskin, M., &
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Hermione
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Ancient History
For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled newspapers, teachers and officials. Then a teenager flagged up something that everyone else had missed.
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Humanities
Actor Brian Cox, who is widely recognised for his role as Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession, was on the programme to promote his new documentary 'Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live'.
The other Brian Cox was there to talk about his new book 'Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe'.
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Hermione
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Paper Lens
More than 2,000 years after it was probably hung from the door of a
mud-brick house in northern Spain to bring luck, a flat, lifesize
bronze hand engraved with dozens of strange symbols could help
scholars trace the development of one of the world’s most mysterious
languages.
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Hermione
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Ancient History
The Yorkshire Museum is now in talks with the buyer about displaying the "rare and beautiful object".
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Hermione
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Ancient History
QuoteThere is no mainstream in archaeology as Hancock so often says. The archaeology is either done scientifically or it isn’t.
In this post, I’ll critique the second episode of Hancock’s Netflix series from the perspective of scientific archaeology.
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Paper Lens
(All right: so they didn't have TVs ... )
QuoteA slight breeze cut through the balmy heat as I surveyed the ancient city around me. Millions of red bricks formed walkways and wells, with entire neighbourhoods sprawled out in a grid-like fashion. An ancient Buddhist stupa towered over the time-worn streets, with a large communal pool complete with a wide staircase below.
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Ancient History
Hans_lune Wrote:
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> Sigh so many broken leads eh?
Well: Reisner evidently did the boat pit between G1-a and G1-b -
(and see A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix B: East Cemetery (Cem. 7000), Page ApxB 003;
Vol.11.p.024:
QuoteWork on
(1) street between G I-b and G I-a,
(1) Avenue G
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Ancient Egypt
Hans_lune Wrote:
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> What sources do we have on what was found in
> that?
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> ""The most denuded pyramid left, is GI-a, which
> has a small boat pit on its south side; the large
> boat pit in the foreground
> is one of a pair placed either side of Khufu’s
> pyramid temple: a further s
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Ancient Egypt
Researchers excavating the 2,700-year-old Cerro de San Vicente site
unearthed a fragment of a portrait depicting the goddess Hathor,
daughter of Ra, god of the sun
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
The rock inscriptions of Semna and Kumma were first noticed by Richard Lepsius,
and some of them have been published by him in his monumental Denkmäler aus Ägypten
und Äthiopien, vols. II and V (1849-59). After this pioneer work, D. Dunham and J.M.A.
Jansen published more inscriptions in 1960, as a part of their study of the fortresses
themselves, in Second Cataract forts, vol. 1, Semna-Kumma
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Judah’s eighth-century b.c.e. King Hezekiah is well known from archaeology, as well as the Bible. His name is mentioned on the prisms of Assyrian King Sennacherib, as well as on several bullae, recovered via excavation or on the antiquities market.
Yet for not only Hezekiah in particular, but the kings of Judah in general, there has been one thing missing: “monumental”-style inscriptions, or s
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Hermione
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Ancient History
Small branding irons from ancient Egypt were likely used to mark the
skin of human slaves, a new study suggests.
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
