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kborissov Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ... > The connection between the heb sed > and rain is attested (see Petrie, 1925). ... Petrie says that the problem was precisely that there wasn't any rain, so the king had to bring the inundation, the annual Nile flood: Quotel9). In Egypt, there being no rain, tlhe king naturally had the duty oby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
the first issue of Hieroglyphs. Studies in Ancient Hieroglyphic Writing has been recently published online. The entire first issue is available here: Hieroglyphs is a double-blind peer-reviewed open access e-journal aiming to promote the academic study of hieroglyphs in all their dimensions ...by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Mysterious messages found in the pocket of an antique dress have finally been decoded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Ten years ago, archaeologist and antique dress collector Sara Rivers Cofield found two crumpled pieces of paper tucked into a hidden pocket of a dress dating to the mid-1880s. Scrawled on the pages were nonsensical strings of text: Oneby Hermione - Humanities
kborissov Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hermione Wrote: > ------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > Petrie says (68, 70) that, in the 18th Dynasty, > a > > new sign appears: a long tank of water upheld > on > > the arms of the djed pillar - "an > imitation > > of the inundatby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Using laser scanning technology, researchers have found traces of 2,500-year-old cities in the Amazon rainforest. Complete with a complex network of farmland and roads, the discovery is the oldest and largest of its kind in the region. Located in Ecuador’s Upano Valley, the dense system of pre-Hispanic structures lies in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountains, according to a study publisby Hermione - Ancient History
Related archive threads (and I was astonished to see how long this story has been running):by Hermione - Ancient History
<< On September 12, at a public hearing in the Mexican Congress on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, ufologist Jaime Maussan unboxed what he claims were the desiccated bodies of two "non-human beings". On November 8, he repeated the visit in a second hearing that dealt with these supposed beings. However, the first one was enough to turn Mexico’s parliamentary seat into the epicenterby Hermione - Ancient History
Aliens they are not. That’s what forensic experts in Peru said Friday about two doll-like figures and an alleged three-fingered hand that customs authorities in the South American country seized last year from a shipment heading to Mexico. The forensic experts with Peru’s prosecutor’s office said the objects were made with paper, glue, metal and human and animal bones. The findings quash soby Hermione - Ancient History
kborissov Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am not aware of inscriptions in the Giza tombs, > specifically mentioning rain or Nile flooding. Sspecifically: a connection between rain or Nile flooding and a major construction. > However, the heb-sed festival which is connected > to pyramids is associated with rainfall and the > flooding oby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
(Science News):by Hermione - Ancient History
Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space. It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter and appears to be roughly 15 times the size of the Moon in the night sky as seen from Earth. Named the Big Ring by the astronomers, it is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters. They say that it is so big it challenges our understanding of thby Hermione - Laboratory
One interesting aspect of this discovery - and how it might change mainstream views of ancient civilisations - is the role played in it by a mainstream researcher opposing the views of other mainstream researchers: Quote"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and cby Hermione - Ancient History
Is there any contemporary evidence - in, say, inscriptions in any of the tombs on the Giza Plateau - giving any indication of a connection between any major construction (such as a pyramid) and the Nile and/or weather?by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation. The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon. The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals. The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created rich local soils but also may hby Hermione - Ancient History
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In a pamphlet from 1833, Pétrus Borel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Borel) protested against the plunder of Egypt. He contrasts it with the fatal indifference displayed for French monuments .by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Why are diseases more common in some parts of Europe than others, and why are northern Europeans taller than their southern counterparts? An international team of scientists say they have unearthed the answer in the DNA of ancient teeth and bones. The genes which protected our ancestors from animal diseases now raise the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers call their discoveby Hermione - Laboratory
Ahatmose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's in the image > Thanks.. << ... a solar year, also called tropical year, is based on the seasons. The Gregorian calendar is based on a tropical year of 365.2425 days. This is the time that the Sun takes to return to the same position in the cycle of seasons, as seen from Earth; for examplby Hermione - Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Ahatmose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry. > > Here is the link. > (Thanks, Don.) I couldn't see where he says "364.24". Could you point me in the right direction?by Hermione - Alternative Geometry and Numerology
(From Tycho. Revista de iniciación en la investigación del teatro clásico y grecolatino y su tradición) GLORIFICACIÓN NACIONAL Y PROPAGANDA FRANQUISTA: ATLÁNTIDA EN EL FESTIVAL DE MÉRIDA (1966) Vasileios Balaskas (Trans.) The search for renewal of the Mérida Festival that began in the middle of the years 60 reflected sociocultural advances and the attempt to overcome production saturationby Hermione - Humanities
Menkaure's Valley Temple, A Layman's Guide. - See also here -by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
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Cornell University Press SCS/AIA 2024 Free Reads Read THREE of our latest books for FREE for an entire month Showing results 1 through 3. Households in Context Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Editors Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Jennifer Carrington Published January, 2024 Ovid's Tragic Heroines Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching Jessica A. Westerhold Published July,by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Includes these papers (free downloads): Desislava Nikolova. The King and the Sun God in the Pyramid Texts, 52-63. Svetla Ilieva. The Textile Ritual of Coffin Texts Spell 728, 64-76.by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Ahatmose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > More trash from my saved files. How this absolute > junk gets in paperback is a greater mystery than > what the charlatan is allegedly solving. > > Just one of several major errors ... He uses > 364.24 instead of 365.24 days in a solar year .... > fascinating. > > > > and aby Hermione - Alternative Geometry and Numerology
QuoteA recently published paper asserting that a structure in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest pyramid has caught the attention of archaeologists and triggered an investigation by the journal that released it, according to information obtained by Nature. (An accessible account of the paywalled Nature article - ) And see also here:by Hermione - Ancient History
The power of the magnitude 7.5 quake in Japan can be seen in just how much the ground moved. It rose up by more than 4m (13ft) in places and moved sideways by over a metre. Earthquake-prone Japan is hugely advanced in monitoring what happens when the ground shakes. That's why it can make such precise measurements. There's a network of GPS stations dotted at strategic points rigby Hermione - Laboratory
A centuries-old mystery surrounding the origins of a chalk giant hill figure has been unravelled by academics from Oxford University. New research indicates the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset was originally carved as an image of Hercules to mark a muster station for West Saxon armies. Speculation has long surrounded the figure, with some believing it could date back to prehistoric times. Thby Hermione - Ancient History
<< • Vol. 24 • Issue 1 • December 31, 2023 • ... Happy New Year! It’s been a very long year, and as I prepared my annual year in review column, the formerly amusing task has become a grim undertaking. Years ago, I generally wrote an amusing, if critical, chronicle of human folly. Now I am chronicling the collapse of expertise, reason, and science, none of which would have occurredby Hermione - Paper Lens
I've just come across this archive post:by Hermione - Ancient Egypt