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The letter is an apology from Byron for cancelling plans with Major Cartwright at the last minute on 26 June 1813. It reads: "Dear Sir, It is with great regret I find that it will be necessary for me to leave London tomorrow morning - and thus be prevented the pleasure I had promised myself in meeting you & Sir F. tomorrow. "I was not aware of this till the Post came in this mby Hermione - Humanities
The letter, written in 1813, was discovered in a Gloucestershire mansion. It was found along with a letter written by 18th century Swiss philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau. The letters are set to make a combined £7,500 at auction on 20 March.by Hermione - Humanities
Astronomers have discovered a new type of red giant star near the centre of the galaxy. A project led by the University of Hertfordshire has spent 10 years studying almost a billion stars in the Milky Way. The scientists have now found hidden stars, including a new type of elderly giant star nicknamed "an old smoker".by Hermione - Laboratory
There's a list of chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:49 The Journal "Archaeological Prospecting" 4:15 Use of Persuasive Language 7:03 One thing I appreciated 8:00 The Figures 10:19 The Geology 12:21 Anthropogenic 13:39 The "Artifacts" 17:48 Chronology and Dating 24:02 The Site is Poorly Dated 25:31 It's not a 24,000 year old pyramid unfortunately 31:08 Why dby Hermione - Ancient History
("Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable. ") The administrative and chancery cuneiform texts of the Archives of the Ebla Palace G (Tell Mardikh, Syria, 24th century BC) offer an exceptional anthroponomastic corpus relating to the whole of Syria and part of Mesopotamia. ... Theby Hermione - Humanities
Information Disorder Online is an Issue of Information Quality Uyiosa Omoregie Quote ... “Trustworthiness” is the buzzword in info-quality circles, trending content online should have a signal of the level of ‘trust’ we can place on such content.by Hermione - Humanities
These are mainly reconstructions, possibly a rehash of what's gone before: Conjunto arquelogico -by Hermione - Ancient History
There might be some information amongst these: - ¿A qué altura se encuentra? ; Características de la construcción . - Arquitectura de Sacsayhuaman - 6-7 - 6-7 - 142 (13), 4.4; 147 (18) "En Saqsaywaman, los muros en zigzag ... "by Hermione - Ancient History
QuoteThe Sodom & Gomorrah comet airburst paper has still not been retracted. But more problems, including plagiarism by its authors from at least three sources, have now been exposed on PubPeer. In addition to being plagiarized, those sources were all misrepresented to imply they support the conclusion of Bunch et al (2021) when in fact they all contradict it. It's just a matter of timeby Hermione - Laboratory
Fossils first discovered in Carmarthenshire in the 1970s revealed traces of organisms that have now been dated to 564 million years ago. The ancient disc-shaped invertebrates probably lived in shallow waters along the coast of volcanic islands. Researchers say the organisms - too primitive to be described as animals - are "completely unlike any other forms of life".by Hermione - Laboratory
<< Recent years have seen increasing public attention and indeed concern regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Hypotheses for such phenomena tend to fall into two classes: a conventional terrestrial explanation (e.g., human-made technology), or an extraterrestrial explanation (i.e., advanced civilizations from elsewhere in the cosmos). However, there is also a third minority claby Hermione - Paper Lens
Those with a sub to WSJ might be interested in this - - lengthy story on Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse, by Aylin Woodward, as suggested by Jason Colavito in his latest Newsletter • Vol. 24 • Issue 4 • January 21, 2024 •by Hermione - Ancient History
Nearly three-and-a-half centuries ago, the country was in the grip of a winter so cold it became known as The Great Frost. It is considered the worst freeze England has ever experienced. Exact temperatures were not recorded in the 17th Century, but the records of a Dr John Downes, a physician to Christ's Hospital in London, reveal daily temperatures in the region of -4°C indoors and -12°Cby Hermione - Ancient History
A new object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known to scientists, and yet lighter than the lightest known black holes, has been found by astronomers. Researchers in Manchester and Germany found it orbiting a millisecond pulsar 40,000 light years away. ... Researchers from the University of Manchester and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonby Hermione - Laboratory
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