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Re: The hole... - 17 years ago

MJ Thomas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it's > getting on for a year since your public > presentation of it in 2006, and this seems to be > an unduly long delay... There are sometimes long delays in the world of publishing, MJ ... I think that perhaps we shall have to be patient for a while longer yet.

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Meeting my distant relations. - 17 years ago

Thanks, Bryan, and Cicely ...

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: "odium scholasticum" - 17 years ago

For a non-AE example of odium scholasticum, scroll down on this link as far as the abstract for Mallory's "Origins of the Irish" ...

by Hermione - Humanities

Study blames Europe for bison mass killings - 17 years ago

North Americans have always taken the heat for killing off millions of American bison during the early 1800s. A new study, however, pins the blame on Europeans.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Restoration of ancient Malatya city walls to start this month - 17 years ago

The restoration of Malatya’s celebrated city walls, built in the time of Byzantine Emperor Justinian (522-565), is scheduled to start this month.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Islamic Medina found in Cacela Velha - 17 years ago

DETAILS ABOUT the Islamic Medina, or town, discovered by archaeologists in Cacela Velha, Vila Real de Santo António, during excavations inside the local fortress, have been revealed ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: OCT - Which Date(s)? - 17 years ago

Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think Robert's gonna give you > some clarifications. You attempted fruitlessly to > get some already some time ago. No one is obliged to post here ... Everyone is free to join, or withdraw from, a discussion at any point.

by Hermione - Alternative Geometry and Numerology

Re: The Watery Nature of the Egyptian Sky - 17 years ago

cladking Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This might be relevant and is, unsurprisingly, one > of my > favorite passages from Horapollo. > > "Egyptian language NOUN, and which, when > interpreted, signifies New, Could you post a link to this translation, please, cladking?

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Water, Canals, Pe, Dep, and the Afterlife - 17 years ago

This looks to be a very interesting article, Greg ... thanks!

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Meeting my distant relations. - 17 years ago

Thanks, Cicely ... so the younger of DaveL's long-lost relatives is his second cousin ?? (I'm still confused ... )

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face - 17 years ago

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The statue has always had no left eye, so I'm not > sure what you have seen (perhaps a poorly executed > copy?). How very odd ... yes, that must be the explanation.

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face - 17 years ago

I keep wondering how she managed to lose an eye ... I've seen full-face portraits in which she has both eyes ...

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: 12,900 Year-Old Clovis Points Found in Maryland - 17 years ago

If you do an archive search for "Solutrean", Don, you'll see that this subject has come up several times over recent years ... see this post, for example ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: bosnian 'pyramids': update on the andrew mystery plus extra - 17 years ago

I've tried to get the links working in your post, Stultitia, but couldn't manage it ... All I can suggest is that people copy and paste into their browsers.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Meeting my distant relations. - 17 years ago

Dave L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On Monday I got an e-mail from my sister saying > that two distant relations from Canada are coming > to Glasgow - and could I meet up with them. > > Apparently they have been looking at their family > tree, and trying to trace the origins of their > father and grandfather back to Scotland where

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: A new addition to the moderation team - 17 years ago

Ritva Kurittu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >>Suomi > is the country. In Finnish = suomeksi. Suomeksi ... thanks, Ritva!

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: A new addition to the moderation team - 17 years ago

Hey! I hope this doesn't mean we're going to see lots of moderation notes in Finnish ... (or should that be Suomi ?? ) ...

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

A new addition to the moderation team - 17 years ago

Tommi Huhtamaki has agreed to join us! Welcome, Tommi ...

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis - 17 years ago

A race against time is under way to try to save a Stone Age settlement found buried at the bottom of the sea in the Solent.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face - 17 years ago

German scientists have discovered that the world's most beautiful woman allowed herself to be sculpted with wrinkles to appear more beautiful.

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Imperium and Cosmos. Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius - 17 years ago

Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Paul Rehak's 2006 study of major Augustan monuments on the northern Campus Martius. (The reviewer also comments on Chapter 4, which <<deals with the "Horologium-Solarium," an immense solar calendar that used an Egyptian obelisk as its shadow-casting gnomon.>> )

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: angling the bent - 17 years ago

Hi C. Wayne, > You need not be concerned about hot-linked image > file sizes as far as forum bandwidth useage is > concerned. All that is downloaded from the forum > host is the URL link information. The viewer's > computer reads the URL link and downloads the > image directly from the place it is store and > inserts it into the page. The most important thi

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: angling the bent - 17 years ago

Jim Alison Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Note to mods: I constructed all of the diagrams as > GIF images and the file size of all of the images > are less than 10 kb each. They seem fine ...

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Request ... - 17 years ago

... could the discussion stay on topic, please ...

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Were the PT's the creation of a single author? - 17 years ago

Rick Baudé Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > According to my current understanding the PT's > were supposedly a collection of texts that had > been assembled over a period of centuries, > rewritten, reedited, recollated and finally carved > onto the pyramid of Unas. As Kemp says ... QuoteSome 500 years separate this time from the per

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

9 000-year-old cemetery found in Syria - 17 years ago

A Syrian-Japanese archaeological team uncovered recently a 9 000-year-old cemetery in north-east Syria, Syrian state-controlled newspaper al-Thawra reported on Tuesday.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Bulgarian Archaeologists Unearth 2,500-Years-Old Tomb - 17 years ago

Archaeologists from the Bulgaria's National History Museum have unearthed a tomb of a citizen, who lived in the ancient city of Apollonia, which is today's Black Sea town of Sozopol.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Discovery could change view of Honnoji temple incident - 17 years ago

Tiles and the remains of stone walls and a moat belonging to Honnoji temple, which is believed to have been destroyed in 1582 when daimyo (feudal lord) Oda Nobunaga was killed by his confidant Akechi Mitsuhide, have been unearthed at the former site of the temple in Kyoto, it was learned Tuesday.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Ancient Egyptian maps - 17 years ago

Here is a detailed post on the subject: (It was part of a longer thread on the same subject).

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Thread closed - 17 years ago

I'm afraid I see no point in keeping this thread open.

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt