Here are extracts from a post regarding Alexandrian Library & respective claims for influence of AEgyptian and Judaic traditions. Some interesting links to...
Recently it has been reported that over 100 ancient Egyptian sites were identified with the help of satellite maps. It seems to be a new trend: Archaeology...
Pompeii and Tutankhamun have one thing in common: during their lifetime, they had only minor significance, and most of their modern popularity stems from the...
Jared Diamond writes in his book 'Collapse': "Many Maya ruins, with their great temples and monuments, still lie surrounded by jungle, far from current human...
Nobody has ever considered that a killer virus could perhaps be the reason for this demise. Face it, 25 to 100,000 people living in a city without satination....
What makes you think that an archaeologist would not like to dwell on sanitation in a city? **************************************Check out AOL's list of...
I was in Siwa, a town in a desert oasis in Egypt, and a guide of the old abandoned town showed me the toilets and sewage system there, I was impressed at how...
The point I am trying to make is that a killer virus related to poor or no santation related to the removal of human waste from living areas could be...
I think the disease theory is a good one.Perhaps they will find remains and the bone marrow can be tested for some deficiencies. I know it probably wouldn't...
At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. The...
Hello, I am reading that Lucian wrote a critique of ancient Egyptian Gods, that involved a dialogue between Momos and Zeus. Momos is disturbed that Egyptian...
John Updike writes in a recent National Geographic article named "Extreme Dinosaurs"about dinosaurs: "They were eventual losers, in a game of survival our own...
Wikipedia says that Lucian of Samosata was an ancient greek/syrian writer from the second century but I don't know anything about his work. Sorry. -J....
Merry Christmas to you too and hav ea bountiful new year :) ... From: Jochen Fromm <Jochen.Fromm@...> To: Ancient_Egypt_Group@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
Here is an interesting article from Martin Ziermann about cities and architecture in Ancient Egypt. Unfortunately it is only available in German. The German...
NYTimes.com article by GEORGE JOHNSON http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25diam.html As I pulled out of Tucson listening to an audiobook of Jared...
Egypt 'to copyright antiquities' "Commercial use" of the sphinx will be controlled under the law Egypt's MPs are expected to pass a law requiring royalties be...
Give A Pharaoh Five A Lecture by Bill Barazzuol and Ahmed Seddik An intriguing tour in Arabic and English through Egyptian history from Narmer to Nasser. Date:...
Historian James O'Donnell writes about history: http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html#odonnell Sometimes the later Roman empire seems very long ago and far...
Czech Egyptologists uncover intact 4500 year-old tomb Radio Prague - Prague,Czech Republic That is exactly what happened in the pyramid fields of Abusir, Egypt...
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