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It's rather sad: he was a well-known name in Egyptology. Moses the Egyptian is available here: Various reviews of that work are available on JSTOR here:by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
QuoteThe radiocarbon dates suggested that three of the tablets were made from trees felled in the 18th or 19th centuries, but the radiocarbon date of a fourth indicated it came from a tree felled in the 15th century, Ferrara said. That predates the arrival of Europeans on Rapa Nui and suggests that the rongorongo script was in use before then, she said. But it's possible that the glyphs wby Hermione - Ancient History
Even in the dead of Canada's winter, the embers of last year's record-setting wildfire season remain. So-called zombie fires are burning under thick layers of snow at an unprecedented rate, raising fears about what the coming summer may bring. People driving on the highway through the town of Fort Nelson, British Columbia (BC) in the winter can easily see - and smell - the clouds ofby Hermione - Laboratory
A gallery's worth of rock art decorating the inside of a cave in Argentina is several millennia older than once thought and contains hundreds of drawings that span 100 generations. At one time, archaeologists dated the art — located in Patagonia, a region in South America's southern tip — as being only several thousand years old. But a new analysis has revealed that some of the worksby Hermione - Ancient History
Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Jean-Louis Rivard, The archaeological survey of the desert roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley: expeditions by the University of Michigan and the University of Delaware to the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 1987-2015. Archeological reports, number 26. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018. Pp. xxi, 480. ISBN 9780897571098 Review by Loby Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
For thousands of years, the ancient Egyptians inscribed hieroglyphs on tombs, papyri and, in some cases, pyramids. But when were hieroglyphs invented? Research shows that they emerged about 5,200 years ago, at around the same time another writing system, called cuneiform, was being invented in Mesopotamia. "German excavations at Abydos in Egypt have revealed hieroglyphic inscriptions fby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
The Menkaure Pyramid Review Committee (MPRC) has unanimously rejected a plan to restore the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of the smallest of three Pyramids of Giza for thousands of years onto the monument to preserve the universal and archaeological value of the site.by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
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These sunken islands are very near the sites described here: I don't know if there's any relationship between them.by Hermione - Ancient History
(And no ... it's not that one ....) QuoteRavenser Odd is the Atlantis of the East Riding. A medieval town built on the sandbanks of the Humber estuary, it now sits below the waves. The Township and port of Ravenser Odd was located at the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was settled on the north shore very close to the tip of the sand spit known today as Spurn Point. Its existence was flby Hermione - Ancient History
Abstract (trans.): QuoteIn epigraphy, the term fecit generally appears in monuments or public infrastructures indicating that the person associated with this verb was the evergete of these constructive enterprises. However, the term is also documented for a few thousand years during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Severus Alexander. (Rest of paper in English)by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Including "Pharaohs and Animals in Ancient Egypt"by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Experiments suggest ancient four-holed ivory baton was used to make rope Rope making in the Aurignacian of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago (Acknowledgements to Dr. Troglodyte)by Hermione - Laboratory
This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia. The multilingual nature of this name maby Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Hans_lune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Were there any inscriptions on it or has any > additional studies been done on it? Well ... there's an image of it here: - and here: It certainly doesn't look as if there's much in the shape of an inscription. But there's no mention of the sphinx in this Griffiths Institute list: (by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Hidden just beneath the surface of the water, there are lost towns and cities right across the world. Forget about the mythical Atlantis – these are places that were once bustling with people, but have been buried by natural disasters, rising sea levels or deliberate flooding. Dive below the waters with BBC Bitesize and explore the intricate mosaics, amazing hieroglyphics and towering statuby Hermione - Ancient History
A "spectacular" image of the Milky Way has been announced as the winner of the annual South Downs National Park astrophotography competition. The winning photo in the Starry Skyscapes category was a night-time image of Cuckmere Haven and the Seven Sisters in East Sussex. Giles Embleton-Smith, from Eastbourne, took the photo, entitled Galactic Bay.by Hermione - Humanities
On Monday, Nat Friedman, a US tech executive and founding sponsor of the challenge, announced that a team of three computer-savvy students, Youssef Nader in Germany, Luke Farritor in the US, and Julian Schilliger in Switzerland, had won the $700,000 (£554,000) grand prize after reading more than 2,000 Greek letters from the scroll. Papyrologists who have studied the text recovered from the blaby Hermione - Ancient History
A week ago, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, posted a Facebook video showing workers setting blocks of granite on the base of the shortest of the three Giza pyramids. The footage sparked a storm of criticism from Egyptologists who voiced fears that a wholesale reconstruction of the famed monument was under way, to the detriment of the preservation of itsby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Could the answer lie in Immingham? Bristol? The centre of the earth ... ?by Hermione - Laboratory
QuoteWe launched a new initiative, directed by Mohsen Kamel and Ali Witsell, to explore the older layers of the Heit el-Ghurab (“Wall of theCrow,” HeG) site. In some areas we have seen an older, different layout below what we have so far mapped, which dates to Khafre and Menkaure. We believe that the older phase settlement and infrastructure, which was razed and rebuilt, served Khufu's buiby Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Paul H. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- This link has a reconstruction of the ancient tree: ... > Weird ancient tree from before dinosaurs found in > Canadian quarry > Before age of dinosaurs, plants experimented with > bizarre forms, > discovery shows. Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: > Feb 02, 2024 > ... Looks a bit liby Hermione - Laboratory
QuoteAbundance peaks in microscopic materials, including meltglass, microspherules, Ni, Ir, and Pt have been found in Native American Hopewell-age cultural strata. This discovery includes micrometeorites (possibly pallasites) recovered from heavily burned strata in two Hopewell villages. This evidence suggests that a prehistoric cosmic airburst/impact event occurred in the Ohio River valley. Theby Hermione - Ancient History
Except ... the 2014 paper wasn't the end of the story. The Norrises returned to Death Valley, and made an even more astonishing discovery. (14:28; promotion between 4:30 and 6:00; the real nitty-gritty starts at about 6:00).by Hermione - Laboratory
A 15th Century manuscript has helped to prove a former Archbishop of York was a saint, according to English Heritage. Thurstan, who was archbishop from 1114 to 1140, was previously thought to have been passed over for sainthood, the organisation said. A service book from Pontefract Priory listed him in a calendar of saints' feast days observed at the monastery. Dr Michael Carter, frby Hermione - Humanities
Some readers might find the following chapter of particular interest: The Egyptian mud-brick silo. Technical and functional analysis of a grain storage device (p. 151 [153])by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
In 2020 and 2021 the Research Group on Storage in Ancient Egypt and Sudan organised two online workshops focusing on earthen storage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Following these two meetings, the nine contributions of this volume present often unpublished case studies (from the IVth millennium BCE to the Greco-Roman Period), as well as issues and perspectives of current research. They arby Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
The longitudinal axes of the Middle Kingdom tombs excavated in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa were precisely oriented to the summer and winter solstices. Located on the western side of the Nile, opposite Elephantine Island, the architectural design of these tombs differed greatly from that of the Old Kingdom with elongated spaces around these axes in relation to the solar cycle. As architectureby Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Wiki on Schloss Kyburg - )by Hermione - Ancient History