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<< A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, researchers say, to create a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination.
The painting has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago – around 1,100 years befor
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Ancient History
... and an ingenious way of sorting it out:
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Coffee Shop
Hans_lune Wrote:
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> cladking Wrote:
Er ... Hans_lune, you don't seem to have finished this post!
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<< It’s hard to believe that William Shatner is 94 years old, or that he is currently the oldest person hosting a cable TV series, but the eternally young Star Trek star is both things—and launching a news season of The UnXplained, its eighth, the same week that Trump advisor Stephen Miller appealed to the actor to “save” Star Trek from “wokeness,” fundamentally misunderstanding the human
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<< On September 12, at a Public Hearing in the Mexican Congress on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, ufologist Jaime Maussan unboxed what he claims were the desiccated bodies of two "non-human beings". On November 8, he repeated the visit in a second hearing that dealt with these supposed beings. However, the first one was enough to turn Mexico’s parliamentary seat into the epicenter
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<< ... the series began its new season with a rehash of familiar material about elongated skulls that the show has repeated for a decade and a half. In a week where Giorgio Tsoukalos was actively posting on X that the supposed “alien” mummies of Peru were nothing but desecrated human bodies made into “dolls,” it is a bit ironic that he is also appearing here to declare some skulls from Peru
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<< I’m afraid we will not see his like again. The genre will be poorer without him in it, if only because his imitators steal from their sources with less panache and spend their days in anger and outrage. If nothing else, von Däniken always seemed to be smiling, even when upset. He was a natural conman, and he played the part as well as any of the other famous hoaxers and grifters of the m
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<< After more than a decade of anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum devoted to a single civilization, has fully opened its exhibitions, including the long-awaited King Tutankhamun halls.
Originally announced in 2002, the idea for the museum dates back to the 1990s, when Egypt began envisioning a new institution in Giza to relieve the strain on the aging Egypt
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<< Researchers used satellite data and the physics of how Antarctica's glaciers move to work out what the continent might look like beneath the ice.
They found evidence of thousands of previously undiscovered hills and ridges, and say their maps of some of Antarctica's hidden mountain ranges are clearer than ever before.
While the maps are subject to uncertainties, the resea
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<< (11 Jan 2026) Ancient astronaut theorist Erich von Däniken has died in Switzerland at age 90. The author of Chariots of the Gods (1968) and dozens of other bestselling books died of natural causes in a Swiss hospital, according to his daughter Cornelia. In reporting the controversial author's death and the 70 million copies he sold, the Associated Press credited him with "spaw
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Well! Apparently, there are variations ...
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But, if someone from the present-day West happened to meet a real 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian (probably not all that likely ... ) and used any of the pronunciations in the video, they might just get stared at blankly ...
And, then, how would the name have been pronounced after the time of Tutankhamun, in the 25th Dynasty, say?
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Or, at least, another proposal put forward about "the giant prehistoric monuments called vishaps locally" -
"The process of sourcing, carving, and transporting the stones was enormous ... " We know that water management was very important, but were such labour-intensive processes really the best way of going about watershed management ... ?
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I'm not at all sure how much resemblance the present-day pronunciation of the name really bears to how it would have been actually pronounced in Tutankhamun's time ...
This is an example of how it's thought some spoken AE might have sounded:
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Ancient Egypt
<< (6 1 2026) On Sunday, Super Channel in Canada launched a new history-themed reality TV show called Quest for the Lost Vikings in which David Collette and Johann Sigurdson of the Explorer’s Club and the Fara Heim team travel across Canada and the United States in search of evidence that the Norse explored the interior of North America far beyond the settlements in Vinland credited to the
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What would Homer have thought of Matt Damon ... ?
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> So what? Books are still available online, in
> stores and libraries.
Well ... it says:
Quote... not appropriate for the age or
maturity level of a student in any of the grades kindergarten through twelve (K12)
So I thought at first that the rulings applied to children under twelve years old, which m
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> There's The The Complete Royal Families of Ancient
> Egypt: A Genealogical Sourcebook of the Pharaohs
> by Dodson and Hilton.
4th Dynasty families can be found on pg. 50 -
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<< Enki & Ptah is a scientific journal focused on technology, science, crafts, exchange and commercial interactions in ancient Egypt, Nubia, the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia, from Prehistory to the beginning of the Hellenistic period. >>
E.g.: Decoding Ancient Egyptian Metalworking: A Textual Analysis of Old Kingdom Iconography, 179–200 (downloadable PDF - scroll
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Including: "Bercken, Ben van den. Alternative Egyptology. Critical essays on the relation between academic and alternative interpretations of ancient Egypt. Leiden: Sidestone, 2024."
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Hans_lune Wrote:
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> Is there a single source that covers the wives,
> children, and officials for the three Pharaoh's
> buried at Giza?
Apparently not ...
It seems one has to depend on such sources as ...
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Ancient Egypt
<< (Jason Colavito) In the wake of the recent tragedies that plagued this week, Christopher Knowles, known to readers of this blog as the author of Our Heroes Wear Spandex, which I reviewed in 2014, and more recently as a blogger and podcaster under the name of The Secret Sun, put forward a confusing conspiracy theory in which the Brown University shooting, the death of Rob Reiner and his w
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<< (Jason Colavito) The Guardian ran an important story about skeptical view of the documentary The Age of Disclosure, and reporter David Smith interviewed me for the piece. I am quoted extensively in the article, and the headline--"A Lot of Stories But Very Few Facts"--is a quote from me. "One of the things that surprised me," I told Smith, "is how much of the film
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What on earth is going to become of the future history of humanity ... ?
In a world where the younger generation lacks knowledge of the basics, and AI has access to a significant portion of the knowledge acquired by humans over the past several thousand years, which is going to win out ... ?
(Answers on a postcard, please ... if anyone knows even what a postcard is, or how to write on one,
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<< There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space.
An analysis by a South Korean team has hinted that, rather than the Universe continuing to expand, galaxies could be pulled back together by gravity, ending in what astronomers call a "Big
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Some of Clive Ross's material is still available on the Web Archive -
(However, we would suggest to readers wanting to know more about the pyramids and AE culture in general that they consult reliable authorities such as Mark Lehner; and see also Waggy's Guies - ).
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Happy Christmas festivities to all from everyone at Ma'at!
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