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Easily enough found with google: and the original paper:by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Well, some spelling and grammar mistakes ("Babylonian's" for "Babylonians" - as someone with a degree in English, the use of an apostrophe to incorrectly indicate a plural noun is always grating) - and frankly the evidence isn't terribly convincing. You are using tertiary (or even further removed) sources that say calculating the stars was something that the ancieby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Yikes! That's pretty damning evidence of someone who sets out to prove an idea and won't be dissuaded from it. And the "glazed pottery" argument is just silly.by Byrd - Ancient History
From the EFF mailing list: -------------- Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum Alice Stevenson This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas about the past aby Byrd - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Hans_lune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd Wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Great. > > > > Finance guy. > > > > Now... he might be very good at managing the > place > > and things but I'd be far more comfortable if > he > > had some sort of knowledge abouby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Personally, I still go with the elbow-to-hand measure. It's going to be rather difficult to run up to the king and say "hey, we need to make a new ruler. Let us measure your head again." I can see "measure your forearm" -- or even using the architect's body, measuring things quickly by rolling your head around isn't practical. Look at Akhenaten or Tutankby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Very very few -- perhaps only our great translators plus those teaching courses at universities -- a guess would be in the low hundreds. James Allen is the one who comes immediately to mind, along with Collier and Manley. You'd have to add the caveat of "which part of Egyptian history are we talking about" because the language varied over time.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Great. Finance guy. Now... he might be very good at managing the place and things but I'd be far more comfortable if he had some sort of knowledge about archaeology. Wish I could read Arabic so that I'd get a better sense of what he's all about.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Is there any background on why the shuffle is occurring or what experience the new guy has?by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
I don't think it's changed much. A shame, really. The world's repository of information is terribly polluted.by Byrd - Laboratory
I have been looking out for older friends who may suffer in the heat and drought here. We're kind of used to this sort of thing here in Texas...but the rest of y'all surely aren't. And there'll be changes to the food supply; changes in what's possible to grow.by Byrd - Apocalypse
Pistol Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In this context I suggest we should view > the ben-ben as being 'the' Ka stone of Re and the > ben-ben-et as a symbolic replication or duplicate > ben-ben... intended to be the king's Ka stone, > after all the king couldn't use/occupy his > father's ben-ben during his dailyby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been discussing this with someone rather more > knowledgeable than me. That group in the middle > might be reading "s w f", and might be part of a > word or phrase: but you can't really tell. Likely > there's stuff missing ... And those other > markings to the rightby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Is there a photo of the inscription? Might actually be able to discern a bit more from a photo (better lighting than Petrie had.) I'm tempted to say "gang sign" (gang of laborers) particularly since one is unlikely to be wishing health to the deceased king.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Hmm. Thutmose? Or Ramesses? Y'know, it's hard to tell. The regional pharaohs of the Intermediate periods might have been waging almost constant battles in order to maintain their position. Mustering an army takes time and logistics and there really weren't any professional armies early on. Honest answer: I have absolutely no idea.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Oooo!!! Warcraft had an expansion with Egypt-like theme as an adventuring area and guess who is an avid Warcraft player!by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Yup. Seen it for myself. It's geology.by Byrd - Ancient History
Weird synchronicity: he received his Master's at Texas Tech the same year I received my first Master's (Texas Tech, also.) Nope. Didn't know him. It's a big school and we weren't in the same departments.by Byrd - Apocalypse
Hermione Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes ... Shame Merer doesn't say anything about it. > Just talks about sailing up and down the Nile ... > no help at all. To the best of my knowledge, they talk about sailing times because distance wasn't that important. Travel was by river, not road, and the time depends on which way youby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Pistol Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What I find to be a head scratcher; people come up > with these esoteric concepts without explaining at > all why the Egyptians were trying to prove the > size of the planet, to what benefit were they > engaged in such an enterprise? Exactly. Mathematically, they were accountants. They had methods oby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some years ago, I arrived at the conclusion that a > length of 12,000 cubits can be regarded as a > significant arc of the meridian. And here we get into the issue of "WHICH cubit?" > My determination was, however, based on a modern > determination of the size of the planet. > &by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Now, Pythagoras...I might believe that of him.by Byrd - Ancient History
For the Greeks it was about philosophy (and religion.) They believed in a concept of perfection, and mathematics was thought to be the key to learning and understanding perfection. So we have "perfect shapes" and so on and so forth (basically, Pythagoras started math as a religion.) Their drive to uncover more and more abstract principles is what led to geometry and algebra (eveby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Hans_lune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have only the partial cite above. Does anyone > know what book/paper this might be? What title? > Comes from a gentlemen who insists that said cite > has a reference in it that the ancient Egyptians > had the Atur measurement which was their word for > 'latitude', it is a measurement buby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Let's see if this works... Taken by myself at the Mena House (where we were staying), 10/15/2015by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
His statement that "There is not record of any Greek discovering that the Earth was round, just like there is no evidence that the Egyptians considered it flat" is not correct. We know they considered it flat from a number of texts that they left, including the idea that the sky (Nut) was held up by four deities. You don't get that kind of sky in a round world. Also, the &qby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
I need new glasses. I read that as "MenSTRUAtion"... and was left terribly confused.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
The Reddit thread has some interesting suggestions. Whatever it is, it's got to be something that's very very common. Things like "breast pump part" isn't going to be correct, since there's not a bajillion of them out there. I like the "pill bottle part" suggestion. Pill bottles account for a huge amount of waste.by Byrd - Laboratory
I believe that's the same head -- the article certainly indicates that it is. So it's still a "one off."by Byrd - Ancient History
I think there's rather less to that new method than the hype suggests... Basically they're assuming something about the degradation of material using X-ray scans (which aren't really used for that kind of thing.) This would assume that they've got other samples of this kind of material that can be reliably dated and that were stored under the same conditions. I'mby Byrd - Ancient History