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<< Nipah virus (NiV) is a serious infectious disease that periodically causes outbreaks in parts of Asia. While the risk to most people remains very low, understanding this virus is important if you are planning to travel to one of the areas where it circulates. No cases have ever been found in the UK. >>
(Elsewhere on the Web): << The Nipah virus is an RNA virus, like the
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Laboratory
Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Lupita isn't that big a name.
True ... I'd never heard of her before this. Although it seems she has won some acting awards:
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Spiros Wrote:
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> I created a YouTube video that defines Greece
> through the geographic coordinates of Djedefre's
> pyramid, the longitude of Khafre's pyramid and the
> isopsephy value of the name Jesus. It is the
> geodetic 888 code.
Why would Djedefre have had any interest in constructing a pyramid that h
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
<< The pictures are not copyrighted they are from Wikipedia >>
In which case, the following would apply:
<< Guidelines for images and other media files
Images, photographs, video and sound files, like written works, are subject to copyright. Someone holds the copyright unless the work has explicitly been placed in the public domain. Images, video and sound files on t
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Well ... there don't seem to be any public food safety warnings in the US or UK at the moment about bananas from the Doce River estuary.
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Laboratory
These could have been the sort of creatures that - if he'd known about them - might have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
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Laboratory
<< Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Leire Olabarria, The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions is a highly innovative work that offers stimulating reflections on the possibilities that the “what if” questions and counterfactual narratives can contribu
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Paper Lens
The contractors should have been made aware of the existence of the petroglyphs, and the sanctions for disturbing them, before they started work.
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Ancient History
<< An Italian engineer claims that his own personal methodology for studying erosion has proved that the Great Pyramid of Giza is as much as 40,000 years old. The claim circulated last week thanks to a report in The Daily Mail, Alberto Donini claims to use his own "relative erosion method" to compare stones and estimate how long they have been eroding, which led him to the conclus
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Ancient Egypt
Archive post referencing Anastasi I - but no mention of giants that I could see ...
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<< An article in the New York Post went viral yesterday for claiming an Egyptian papyrus supposedly is proof that the Nephilim of Genesis 6:4 were real flesh-and-blood giants. The Post piece from Sunday summarizes a Daily Mail article from earlier in the day breathlessly reporting the contents of Papyrus Anastasi I, an Egyptian papyrus scroll found in 1839 and translated into English in 191
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From "Jason Colavito Newsletter" • Vol. 28 • Issue 7 • February 8, 2026 • :
<< This week, Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, said on a podcast that she “heard” that Pres. Trump will be making a statement about UFOs “soon.” Responding to a question about UFOs sent in by a viewer, Lara Trump said, “I hear that the president has something in the queue to
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<< Non-native and rare species of sea slugs described as looking like aliens have been found by a group studying rock pools.
The depilatory sea hare (Aplysia depilans), usually found in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, was discovered at Mount Batten Beach in Plymouth, Devon, during an event run by the Rock Pool Project.
The Marine Biological Association (MBA) said it was po
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> And there are many Greek actresses possessing
> exactly that kind of beauty.
The problem is that historical authenticity doesn't necessarily equate to the kind of star appeal that will generate production money.
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UK readers might remember that terrible scene in Episode 2 of The War between the Land and the Sea - .
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Humanities
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> Interesting the only complete Neanderthal sinus
> cavity ever found proved they had evolved a second
> sinus pocket to warm and moisturize breath as a
> cold weather adaptation!
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However, this article - - links to a paper ( , paywalled) that seems to dispute that finding.
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Ancient History
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<< The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal cemetery from Egypt’s Old Ki
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<< As the Egypt Exploration Society announced in 2024,
we expect to close our library, archive, and Special
Collections to members and researchers from 1st April
2026. Subject to raising the necessary funds for the
redevelopment of our premises in London, this deadline
remains in place.
If you require access to our collections before 1st April,
then please contact us immediately. A
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Possibly Helen of Troy (if she'd existed at all ... not too sure about this) might have looked something like this:
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<< This paper is meant to be a response to a video documentary by Matthew Sibson, author of the Ancient Architects channel, aptly called “The Case for Khufu: 10 Reasons Why He Built the Great Pyramid of Egypt” on January 25th, 2021 ( , 25:12). >>
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Ancient Egypt
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> Suddenly Animal Farm doesn't seem so quaint, does
> it?
Perhaps some political allegories are more quaint than others ...
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Coffee Shop
<< Archaeologists have identified what may be one of the oldest known visual declarations of colonial power in human history, carved into rock more than 5,000 years ago in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The ancient inscription was discovered in Wadi Khamila, a remote valley in southwestern Sinai.
The find was documented during fieldwork by Mustafa Nour El-Din of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiqu
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Ancient Egypt
<< We are pleased to announce that the third issue of
our journal Hieroglyphs. Studies in Ancient Hieroglyphic
Writing has just been published. This issue, like the
preceding two, is free to download here:
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Continuing the point about oral traditions, this recent book (in German) - Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze - Frank Görne, Marian Nebelin, Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze. Antike Kultur und Geschichte. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2025. - concerning the treatment of time in ancient societies might be useful.
For those of us who don't read German, this review (i
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Ancient History
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> Isn't it more likely as the ice age relented there
> were many horrible floods.
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I thought that the retreat of the various Ice Ages would have been too gradual, so would have said no.
However, it turns out that this opinion is probably entirely incorrect; see Paul H. on the Missoula Mega-Floods -
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Ancient History
<< ... I propose that the pyramid builders had invented a pulley-like system, effectively reducing the force needed to lift the blocks. The required force to lift blocks was partly generated by sliding counter-weights down sliding-ramps. One of the pulley-like systems and three of the sliding-ramps are still visible today, assigned as the antechamber and as the grand gallery, ascending pass
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