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I'll add a "heartily recommended" to the Kelsey Museum Publications Series -- I was an early purchaser of the fabulous "Death Dogs" book.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I'm doing some reading up on magical knives and wonder if anyone has resources on this topic they can share. What I've found is pretty thin.
(for reference, this is what I'm interested in: )
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I love the idea that they're bringing the tarantulas home from the lab. I'd do it!
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Byrd
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Laboratory
You might want to contact them and tell them you're the copyright holder.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
(sigh)
I want to go back... and do the same thing you did!
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> The first comprehensive report on the ScanPyramids
> discovery. Plus, why we can conceivably look
> forward to even more exciting news.
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With the COVID-19 outbreak, I suspect work is going to be suspended for the next few months. The numbers from Egypt are not good and I suspect it will cause
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Just eyeballing it (and from the perspective of a non-Egyptologist scholar), I don't see anything that's particularly suspect in the conclusions. Cedar certainly was a highly desirable commodity, and we know that there were very few merchants capable of initiating and maintaining a long distance trade. Merchants of that time would have been mostly local to their village, and not have
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Ancient Egypt
One of the issues with your idea is that the Egyptians had two calendars: the civil and the common. So while the civil calendar wandered backward, the common calendar (based on the rising of Sirius) didn't really stray.
Westcar also dates to the Middle Kingdom, but Lull and Belamonte are discussing New Kingdom and Ptolemaic period.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Onions are also mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, where they play a part in many pharmaceutical compounds:
So I don't think they were "detested."
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Ancient Egypt
KatDawg Wrote:
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> The Mood Goddess...consort of Ba'al...A brief
Err... perhaps "MOON Goddess?" Although I do like the notion of a "Mood Goddess." I certainly do have moods!
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Byrd
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Ancient History
robin cook Wrote:
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> Thanks for the figures Chris. As for the diagram I
> was trying to show the rising of Orion at the same
> time as norther starshaft candidate stars were in
> vertical alignment in the north. I noted that
> egyptians depicted stars as 5-pointed and
> speculated that they were familiar with the
>
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Actually, you could make a more convincing case if you used any number of circumpolar stars. The souls were said to go to these "unperishable stars".
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
(insert various unkind remarks)
We've seen this before. It wasn't plausible then and repetition still doesn't make it plausible.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I agree that it's most likely the area around Abydos... the "Mother of Pots" -
The ground around the Red Pyramid is similarly littered, though not as deeply.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Drr. Grand gallery. For some reason I got the relieving chambers image stuck firmly in my head from another discussion. Silly Byrd.
I think there's a better and more logical reason for it.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
AFAIK, they were initially chosen by birth order.. and later by other things (given the high mortality rate of infants and children.)
And you do see the Crown Princes referenced in many places (usually in temples with their fathers, offering something to the gods.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> As far as I know I'm the the first to explain the
> vertical and perpendicular height of the Grand
> Gallery.
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> 22/7 was chosen for a symbolic design.
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The really big problem here is that these relieving chambers appear in older pyramids and mastabas.
... like the Red Pyrmid
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> I had forgotten the story, but I'm not sure its
> relevant if it was a story about being trapped in
> a coffin. On the contrary, my model is evocative
> of the ascension of the king's soul from the
> sarcophagus akin to the ceremony of the opening of
> the mouth.
It's not releva
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
L Cooper Wrote:
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> When looking at how the word was written in the
> PT’s, what strikes me as curious is the apparent
> use of Glyph U23 (Chisel) in its spelling. Seems a
> strange choice – given that this glyph is
> usually the first glyph of the word and that its
> addition doesn’t really seem appropriate
You a
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> And someone like you who would be most concerned
> that the Khufu's body would actually fit in the
> sarcophagus with proper dignity without being bent
> over or squashed in due to a Pi ratio.
Simple physical measurements would give that result... and remember the story of the death of O
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
It falls apart the moment they bring in a "suppose there was a Canaanite cult that just happened to settle near the Great Sphinx".
At that point (and it was early on) the whole thing became a "nope" for me.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
This is exactly the situation... those aren't Eyes of Re. They're the ideogram for "look"/"see."
I found a reasonable photo of the object here:
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
cladking Wrote:
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> 2052b. The mother of N. is Nut;
> 2053a. the father of N. is Shu; the mother of N.
> is Tefnut.
> 2053b. They take N. to heaven, to heaven-on the
> smoke of incense.
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> The feminine concept of the origin of the pyramid
> is the "sky" and the masculine concept is
> "upw
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Ancient Egypt
Spiros Wrote:
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> I converted the Khufu pyramid apex angle to the
> corresponding latitude converting from geocentric
> to geodetic and came up with the geodetic latitude
> which corresponds to Antigone street of Thebes.
> From this street photos are often taken of the
> Mycenaean palace ruins(practically the center
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Exploring the Black Sea's floor would give better results, IMHO. Just because we can do something in modern times doesn't mean they did it in antiquity.
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Ancient Egypt
Sekhmet would have been known as the "eye of Re" and the "Mother of the pharaoh" (she still is known by that epithet in Cairo)
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Ancient Egypt
I would believe plank-sewn boats. I don't believe reed boats, though.
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Ancient Egypt
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