<< The focus of this article is the pyramid belonging to king Unis, last king of the 5th Dynasty.
The striking feature of this pyramid is its ornate internal decoration with spells/utterances
from the Pyramid Texts, and with the palace façade motif around the king’s sarcophagus.
The Pyramid Texts, one of the oldest examples of religious literature in the world, appear
here for the i
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Interview with Trevor Grassi (Nicole Ciccolo; It.; some Eng. trans.) - YT, 1:31:36 - . Transcript.
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> Supporters of the comet hypothesis, such as UCSB
> geologist Dr. James Kennett, note impact debris at
> Abu Hureyra, Syria—about 1,000 km from Giza—as
> possible evidence of regional
> flooding.
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Kennett is also a co-founder of the Comet Research Group, some of whose work has
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<< The team that stunned the archaeological world in March with a report of vast underground structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre now says it has detected matching shafts and chambers under the neighboring Pyramid of Menkaure. Lead radar specialist Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde told the Daily Mail the new scan shows a “90 percent probability” that Menkaure “shares the
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At point 10:21 of the video , they show the 5 April 1909 article that I wasn't able to find when we last looked at this question - .
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<< I don’t know if the Shroud of Turin is the most controversial or the most intensely studied artifact in the world but it certainly must be in the top ten. The Shroud itself is a linen cloth, a little over 14 feet long (4.4 meters) and a tad over 3 feet wide (1.1 meters). And, of course, it’s best known as bearing the faint image of an allegedly crucified man. Ostensibly, Jesus Christ.
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<< A sheep and three lambs were rescued from the roof of a house after they escaped from a field and tried to avoid being caught by police.
Penrith Fire Station manager Darren Wright said he and his crew were "baffled" when they arrived at the two-storey property in Graham Street, just before 11:00 BST, and were greeted by the sight of the animals up high.
With the assistanc
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<< in
2,450 BC - Egyptians had acquired the primordial
knowledge of agriculture, still they didn't
discovered the wheel >>
Representation of Old Kingdom wheel:
<< Is it a certainty or a necessity to state
that Khufu's workers built the Great Pyramid?
What evidences connect Khufu to the majestic
building of Giza?>>
The crew-marks incorporating Khuf
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<< Legendary Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass joins the podcast for a rare and revealing conversation. From his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience to the latest discoveries shaking up our understanding of ancient Egypt, Dr. Hawass shares exclusive insights into the Wadi el-Jarf papyri, the mysterious Big Void inside the Great Pyramid, and the true story of the Sphinx >>
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<< Determining by means of palaeography the chronology of ancient handwritten manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls is essential for reconstructing the evolution of ideas, but there is an almost complete lack of date-bearing manuscripts. To overcome this problem, we present Enoch, an AI-based date-prediction model, trained on the basis of 24 14C-dated scroll samples. By applying Bayesian
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Might also be interesting to compare ring-forts (many of them apparently mediaeval rather than Iron Age) with the deities of Irish mythology as described in, e.g., Ireland`s Immortals – A History of the Gods of Irish Myth (Mark Williams, 2016 - .)
<< The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book
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<< This article attempts to explain the survival of tens of thousands of ring-forts in the Irish landscape. The sites
probably owe their preservation to superstitious fear of leprechauns and fairies. But what gave rise to such
fears? The paper proposes, tentatively, that medieval outbreaks of disease may be to blame . >>
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<< ... archaeologists working in Viggbyholm, Täby, outside of Stockholm, unearthed a stunning 1,000-year-old Viking Age treasure trove. The site was inhabited from around a.d. 400 to 1050 and contains more than 20 houses and other buildings . >>
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<< The unrivaled millennia-long historical chronology of ancient Egypt forms the backbone for archaeological synchronization across the entire Eastern Mediterranean region c. 3000-1000 BCE. However, for more than a century, scholars have wrangled over the correct calendrical positioning of this record, with older scenarios being referred to as ‘High’, and younger ones, ‘Low’ chronologies. O
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<< GAERHF is intended to provide a long-term and global perspective on the widespread practice of creating images of ourselves, of human figures. It adopts the concept of 'early' quite loosely and will include representations created through approximately the middle of the thirteenth century CE >>
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<< The new model shows the nuclear explosions carried out in New Mexico and Nevada between 1945 and 1962 led to widespread radioactive contamination, with Trinity making a significant contribution to exposure in New Mexico, in neighboring states, and reaching 46 of the 48 contiguous United States as well as Canada and Mexico. The study also documents significant deposition in Nevada, Utah,
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<< This paper examines the geometrical design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It discusses theories derived from the golden ratio and pi which seek to explain the Great Pyramid's plan and the most recent surveys of its dimensions. The paper concludes by offering a theory which suggests that the Great Pyramid's design was intentionally based on the 4th Dynasty Egyptian canons of the
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<< YouTuber, podcaster, and TV talking head Luke Caverns appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience today to discuss ancient history and lost civilizations. Caverns, who counts Graham Hancock as a key inspiration, tries to take a middle ground approach between mainstream archaeology and its popular cable TV alternatives, but undoubtedly more people will have heard him speak through Rogan’s show t
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The fingerprint is interesting.
I'm not entirely ... sure ... about the "face" ... Jury's out on that one.
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From :
<< When archaeologists were sifting through layers of sediment from the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain, they noticed an unusual looking stone that seemed to contain a small red dot in the middle. BBC News reports ( ) that deeper analysis of the object revealed that the strange mark was actually a Neanderthal fingerprint, the oldest known human fingerprint in existence.
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<< On Friday, 1843 Magazine, the longform arm of The Economist, published a lengthy profile [ ] of Graham Hancock, a onetime stringer for The Economist. Journalist Tomas Weber duly noted the darker parts of Hancock’s life story—his years cozying up to African dictators, his raging temper, and his lack of evidence for a lost civilization—but produced a biographical study that seemed intrigu
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- failure_to_converge wrote:
<< I've reasonably assured the validity of my grades by moving most assessments back in class on paper >>
We're all so used now to working with electronic media that we can hardly remember any other way of doing things. But it wasn't always so ...
Supposing educational institutions introduced a requirement for all work to be sub
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Archive posts (HoM) on Great Ballcourt -
And archive posts on Great Ballcourt from Bernard Ortiz de Montellano -
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<< Filippo Biondi (Member, IEEE) was born in L’Aquila, Italy, in 1974. He received the B.S. degree in information engineering and the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from Salento University, Lecce, Italy, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, in 2015. >>
Synthetic Aperture Ra
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According to Wiki, Hilman Natawidjaja is a highy qualified geologist:
<< Natawidjaja graduated with a BSc degree in geology from the Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia) in 1984. He then went to the University of Auckland (New Zealand) where he obtained an MSc degree (with Honors) in Geology in 1992. Finally, he went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, United Stat
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<< The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of religious texts, and, in fact, literature in general, known from ancient Egypt. They are inscribed in the tombs of eleven kings and queens from the late Old Kingdom (mainly from the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties, but one also from the Eighth Dynasty), located in the royal necropolis of Saqqara. The first group of these texts (and, in fact, their major
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<< Pottery excavated at Megiddo in northern Israel suggests a military presence, possibly confirms the battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh Necho, and hints at Gog and Magog narrative
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Ancient Egyptian soldiers and Greek mercenaries were at 'Armageddon' when biblical king was killed, study suggests
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