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I wonder if that poor little boy made a fuss about being abandoned and had to be knocked out ?
Put simply there was a long processional between Cuzco and the sacrifice site with numerous cities and settlements celebrating or venerating the victims.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Smashing skulls was a very ancient Egyptian practice, used on captive enemies why not on human sacrifices
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Ancient Egypt
The theory has been it was Aye's tomb and he took over Tut's intended pharaoh tomb.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
I would love to find Nefertiti, but I can't think of one good reason to believe she's lurking in KV 62. How would she get there and why?
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Henry V and Katherine de Valois weren't first or second cousins. You're thinking of the Hapsburgs. As Hermione says this was a case of a hereditary defect not inbreeding
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Roxana Cooper
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Yes indeed! The problematic 'snake goddesses were covered in some detail. Even the undeniably genuine ones were creatively reconstructed by Evans. They were reportedly found in a cyst containing discarded religious items. Like the seated Goddess found in a grain been the figurines' significance has been vastly overstated. Beautiful well dressed women spectating or performing a ritual ac
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
True. But even before his catatonic attack he was a failure
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Roxana Cooper
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York's claim was inarguable but had been quiescent for two generations would would have stayed quiet for further generations had Henry VI not have been an impossibly bad king.
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Roxana Cooper
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I was watching a YouTube documentary all about the possible position of women in the Minoan civilization. The prominence of female figures in Minoan art was cited. Many explanations were canvased, NOT including the self evident fact that beautiful women beautifully dressed are highly decorative and something men and women alike enjoy looking at.
Sometime the simple explanation is the true one.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
What AE's wanted, according to their writings, was for their body to be preserved and their names remembered. Museums do exactly that
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Yeah. I'm sure lying in a box in a warehouse is exactly what Ancient Egyptian had in mind. Since AEs wanted to have their names remembered lying on display with her name being whispered might not have been an issue
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
There was on these six women, I don't know if any others have been tested.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
For all we know athleticism was normal for AE ladies. And of course girls love horses.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Personally I love the image of tomboy Princesses.
Middle Kingdom royal ladies weren't prominent on monuments like Eighteenth Dynasty ladies but their tombs in their father or brother's pyramid complexes and the wonderful jewelry buried with them sugest they were highly valued by their menfolk, maybe even a little spoiled. Princess Sit-Hathor-Iunet's collection included gifts from
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Nolan fans probably would like it. I wonder if Greece could claim some of the profits as heirs of Homer?
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Roxana Cooper
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Of course they weren't warriors but there's no reason why Egyptian princesses couldn't have been keen bow hunters. In fact it's very interesting to discover Middle Kingdom royal ladies may have been athletic and active sportswomen as well as connoisseurs of fine jewelry. Princess Khenmet is especially famous for her beautiful and unique jewelry.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
So somebody was a huge Homer fan? Another possibility that occurs to me is the embalmers had run out of magical scrolls so just substituted somebody's ratty old Illiad.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Henry was genuinely convinced he was cursed, how else to explain his failure to get a son? Obviously God was Angry! The problem with Henry was he had to feel justified always. He could have contested the validity of the dispensation on technical grounds, the phrasing was unclear, but instead he fixated on the most unacceptable grounds possible. He genuinely did believe in his pretext because it j
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Even when nasty genetic defects are not in the picture persistent inbreeding leads to a loss of genetic variation which apparently weakens the subsequent generations.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
The Pope had the power to dispense such rules. This was questioned by Henry VIII who wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon on grounds of consanguinity based on Deuteronomy. Naturally no Pope was about to admit anything of the kind! I believe the usual justification was that the marriage was necessary for the peace of Christendom.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Probably rooted in the common proto Semitic culture
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Bourbons or Hapsburgs? Philip II famously married his double first cousin resulting in a congenitally damaged son. His third wife was a French princess resulting in two healthy daughters. But instead of drawing the painfully obvious conclusion he married as his fourth and final wife his niece, daughter of his sister by their first cousin resulting in several children who died young and one possib
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
I have now seen at least three 'documentaries' blaming Tutankhamun's physical disabilities on inbreeding. He was certainly the product of a full broth and sister mating, but it was the first in generations.
To go back to the beginning of the dynasty, Ahmose I was married to Ahmose Nefertiti, almost certainly his full sister. Their parents, Ahhotep and Seqenenre had also been broth
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
The connection to the Exodus is tangential at best but a Hyksos settlement could answer a lot of questions about who they were and were they came from
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
As I said I haven't liked any cinematic Helen of Troy. She isn't just a pretty face she's charismatic and magnetic. She is also complex and troubled grieving over her terrible mistake and the consequences. Nolan depicts Helen as a helpless victim. In the Odyssey she is the gracious queen of Sparta, living happily ever after with her husband and deeply regretful over running away wi
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Roxana Cooper
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Low cut bodices and muscular male legs? You bet it would!
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Roxana Cooper
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Elliot Page is chased across a barren beach by Trojans on horseback. Am I wrong to see a problem?
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We are told that the Trojan Horse somehow 'broke the law of Zeus' which makes no sense at all, and is somehow to blame for the end of the Bronze Age.
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Roxana Cooper
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