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Re: Filippo Biondi Claims to Have Found Second Sphinx Under Giza - 3 months ago

Seen this morning (27 4 26): << Using a full series of high-resolution radar tomographies, we have located the Second Sphinx with millimeter precision. We know exactly where to dig >>

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Sad news - Katherine Griffis-Greenberg - 3 months ago

Off-forum, she went to some trouble to comment on, and locate, research materials. It was via Katherine that I found the Bickel reference on Zep Tepi - (Unfortunately, many people seem still to be unable to get to grips with the fact that Zep Tepi was a mythical time, and not a real historical one ... )

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

The Tomb of Dedi, Superior of Inspector Merer (Hawass, Z.; 2024) - 3 months ago

(I would insert more details, but am having formatting problems.)

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

... and now the Tale of the Lost Lamb - 3 months ago

<< Police are appealing for the owner of mystery lost lamb to come forward. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said officers from Gosport's Neighbourhood Team "were as surprised as anyone" to find a lamb whilst out on patrol on 16 April. The lamb, which has been named Larry and is thought to only be a couple of weeks old, was taken for a check up at Alver Vets at

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafre at Giza (Laurel Flentye, 2011) - 3 months ago

<< The decorative programmes of the pyramid complexes of Khufu and Khafre at Giza reflect different approaches to the royal structures that were built to ensure the rebirth of the king in the aftetlife. Although the decorative programmes are mostly destroyed and reconstructed through subsequent pyramid complexes, a study of the associated telief decoration and statuary suggests that

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

Scientists find a new way coronaviruses can get into human cells - 3 months ago

<< An international team of researchers has identified an East African bat coronavirus capable of entering human cells. The virus - Cardioderma cor coronavirus (CcCoV) KY43, or CcCoV-KY43 - can bind to a receptor cell found in the human lung, but testing in Kenya suggests it has not spilled over into the local human population. Rather than work on ‘live’ viruses, the scientists used

by Hermione - Laboratory

Sad news - Katherine Griffis-Greenberg - 3 months ago

Katherine Millicent Griffis-Greenberg 02/20/1954 - 04/07/2026 << Katherine Millicent Griffis-Greenberg, 72, died peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 7, 2026 after months of declining health. >> Katherine contributed to Ma'at on many occasions, and her scholarship and erudition were much appreciated. I'm sorry that she appears neve

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

New (April 2026) in Library: Texts on the Antichrist and the End Times - 4 months ago

New entries include: - a brand new section devoted to the Alexander Romance, the Late Antique novel that changed literature forever: QuoteI became interested in the myth included in some version of the Romance about Alexander locking the tribes of Gog and Magog behind impenetrable gates in the north. This myth found its way into the prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl - which I had previou

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

Re: Egyptian pyramids ‘built by advanced civilisation’ thousands of years earlier than previously thought (25 2 2026) - 4 months ago

Jammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You would think someone that advanced would teach > them how to spell civilization.. Civilization with a "z" is the US spelling. Civilisation with an "s" is the UK spelling. And then there's "color" and "colour" ...

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Neanderthal "Altamura Man" of Italy was embedded in cave wall - 4 months ago

Jammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But creation supposes a divine hand in guidance.. Well: it depends what you mean by "creation." The mythical event referred to in the Old Testament is perhaps more accurately denoted by the use of capitalisation: "Creation." But Ahatmose might have meant something like: "an earlier sta

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Meet a professor fed up with AI slop and Turned to Typewriters - 4 months ago

Hermione Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The other unheard-of phenomenon, of course, is > hand-writing course-work and exams ... I should have checked before posting ... Sweden is now eschewing the new-fangled for the old-fashioned - ....

by Hermione - Humanities

Re: Mysterious rock structures In nothern Quebec wilderness spark debate over Canada's ancient past - 4 months ago

Unfortunately, "Imgur" content isn't accessible in the UK.

by Hermione - Ancient History

Further considerations on development at Giza before the 4th Dynasty (Colin Reader, 2006) - 4 months ago

<< Two previous papers produced by Vandecruys have been critical of the theories of erosion of the Sphinx by rainfall run–off, previously advanced by Reader. In a final response to Vandecruys’ theory that the extant degradation can be attributed to shallow groundwater movement, Reader explains the limitations of Vandecruys’ groundwater model and further discusses the case for developm

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

Re: Death of Ufologist Nick Pope - 4 months ago

Archive thread on Nick Pope -

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Death of Ufologist Nick Pope - 4 months ago

<< Nick Pope, the former UK Ministry of Defence official who made a second career as a ufologist, died yesterday [6 4 2026] after a battle with cancer ... Pope was a fixture on the History channel program Ancient Aliens and served as the moderator for the series' traveling stage show. He appeared in countless UFO documentaries and wrote several books on ufology. >> Wiki on

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry - 4 months ago

Of course, one could go about things the old-fashioned way, and ... read books ...

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Meet a professor fed up with AI slop and Turned to Typewriters - 4 months ago

The other unheard-of phenomenon, of course, is hand-writing course-work and exams ...

by Hermione - Humanities

Re: Meet a professor fed up with AI slop and Turned to Typewriters - 4 months ago

I learnt to type on a manual typewriter. I got the sack from one job as a temp for not copy-typing fast enough ...

by Hermione - Humanities

Re: Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (Ignatius Donnelly, 1882) - 4 months ago

Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Connelly was nuts but to be fair we had less > information when he wrote. Wiki on Donnelly - "In 1882, he published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, his best-known work. It details theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. The book sold well and is widely credited with initiat

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: Experiments refute dark matter claim - 4 months ago

<< Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their predecessor. >>

by Hermione - Laboratory

Re: AE thoughts. - 4 months ago

Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ... > Here in the West reading and > writing dint necessarily go together. People could > read without writing it seems. Could that be true > of Ancient Egypt too? Could people recognize and > decipher hieratic or demotic without being able to > write standard hieroglyphs Apparently, this

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Mansoor Collection. - 4 months ago

The problem is, Roxana, that there is apparently more than one collection to which this description could refer. I'm guessing this one - - but could you post a link to an image?

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

The Pyramid Age Settlement of the Southern Mount at Giza (Lehner, 2002) - 4 months ago

Mark Lehner: << I report on the results of excavation up to 2002 in the 4th Dynasty settlement at the Heit el-Ghurab site, 400 meters south of the Great Sphinx at Giza. >>

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

Re: Princess Marriage - 4 months ago

Well ... I know next to nothing about this subject. However, I found a few sample pages only from here - Non-royal consanguineous marriage in Ancient Egypt (Archaeopress, JM Robinson, 2020) - › DMS › 9781789. I also found this paper - Černý, J., 'Consanguineous Marriages in Pharaonic Egypt', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 40 (1954), 23-9 ; - although I'm not really sur

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Big Investigation of Bigfoot - 4 months ago

<< Researchers spent years interviewing 160 Bigfoot hunters - this is what they learnt Be it a hoax or an undiscovered species, the mystery and mythology around Bigfoot has captured people's imaginations for decades. Widely regarded as a cultural icon, Bigfoot was catapulted into the public sphere in 1967 when grainy footage was captured of a 7ft tall, ape-like figure walki

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Entrance, corridor and void - 4 months ago

Hanslune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are images of the Great Pyramid's entrance > which has two layers of chevron stones: > On the general subject of the GP entrance, this paper (HOW THE GREAT PYRAMID WAS BUILT: THE REDISCOVERED MAIN ENTRY: A Newly Updated Submission - Scott Zema) - - mentions how: << Th effort to more c

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Wi-Wi-Wi – How the Quail’s Call Influenced Hieroglyphs - 4 months ago

<< In the age of voice messages and videos, writing is easily forgotten. Yet for millennia, it has been the central medium of our cultural memory: it stores knowledge and tells stories. Simple symbols give rise to entire worlds in the mind—almost like cinema without popcorn. Whether painted or carved in stone, it lasts an astonishingly long time. Without it, we would know little about the p

by Hermione - Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals

Archaeologists Discover That Structures Buried at 14 Meters Depth Exist in Buto in the Northwestern Nile Delta - 4 months ago

<< A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geophysicists has managed to detect buried structures from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (Saite Period) at the site of Tell el-Fara’in, the ancient Buto, in the northwestern Nile Delta. The discovery was made possible thanks to the combination of images from the Sentinel-1 radar satellite, subsurface electrical tomography, and a subsequent

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Reconsidering the Khufu Cartouches: A Methodological Reassessment of Vyse's 1837 Discoveries (Antonio Ambrosio, 2026) - 4 months ago

Hanslune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I presume Scott is still out there > screaming about his failed idea still? But which one, Hanslune ... Which one? Let me put it like this: Fans of Scott's periodic-earth-pole-inversion theory will be relieved to learn that more discussion of it can be found in Hoax II.

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt

Re: Reconsidering the Khufu Cartouches: A Methodological Reassessment of Vyse's 1837 Discoveries (Antonio Ambrosio, 2026) - 4 months ago

Quote the absence of any recorded inscriptions in Davison’s chamber becomes difficult to ignore when juxtaposed with the abundance reported in the chambers above. Anyone who had taken the trouble to read Davison's account of his discovery would of course be aware of the role of bats in the absence of any dipinti in this particular chamber. Quote Vyse himself was familiar with the work

by Hermione - Ancient Egypt