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Links September 2016
Egyptian hieroglyphs at Mnamon: Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean: A critical guide to electronic resources
Ancient Egypt for kids - Egyptian Crowns and Headdresses of Gods
A Very Remote Period Indeed: A blog reviewing recent archaeological publications having to do with Paleolithic archaeology, paleoanthropology, lithic technology, ( Read more... ) -
Where the naked ladies dance
Alexander Pruss' chapter "The Use of Nude Female Figurines" discusses terracotta figures from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine, including those weird-looking ones with all the holes in the head for attaching hair and earrings, and the later, more naturalistic ones which sort of wave their boobs at you. These and similar objects have long been ( Read more... ) -
Links February 2016
Ancient customer-feedback technology lasts millennia (New Scientist, 2 March 2015). Nanni wants a refund from Ea-nasir for these rubbish copper ingots.
The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Ancient History etc blog, 24 September 2015). It revealed more details of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's battle with Humbaba in the Cedar Forest.
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Links September 2015
'Witchcraft' Island [Blå Jungfrun, an island off the east coast of Sweden] Reveals Evidence of Stone Age Rituals (livescience.com, 22 September 2015)
Paleo People Were Making Flour 32,000 Years Ago (NPR, 14 September 2015)
Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing [Proto-Elamite] (BBC, 25 October 2012)
Nail Polish History Dates Back to ( Read more... ) -
Links: June 2015
New Evidence That Grandmothers Were Crucial for Human Evolution (Smithsonian.com, 2012)
A misdiagnosis of trauma in Ancient Babylon (mindhacks.com, 2015)
Police uncover 36 Egyptian artefacts in Valencia (Olive Press, February 2015) - including part of a statue of Sekhmet.
Busts of the lioness goddess unearthed in Luxor (ahramonline.com, February ( Read more... ) -
Snippets from this and that
- J. Gwyn Griffiths. [review of] Elkab I. Les monuments religieux a I'entrie de l'ouady Hellal by Phillipe Derchain. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 59 (Aug., 1973), pp. 257-259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3856146
"In this region the desert landscape confronts huge formations ( Read more... ) - J. Gwyn Griffiths. [review of] Elkab I. Les monuments religieux a I'entrie de l'ouady Hellal by Phillipe Derchain. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 59 (Aug., 1973), pp. 257-259. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3856146
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Links December 2013
Presumptive "ocular prosthesis" found in the Burnt City - Tumblr discussion, including artist's impression. :)
Evolution of Angels: From Disembodied Minds to Winged Guardians
Africans in Roman York?
Oldest Perfumes Found on "Aphrodite's Island"
Peking Man Was a Fashion Plate
Papyri Point to Practice of Voluntary Temple Slavery in Ancient Egypt ( Read more... ) -
Links January 2013
Cambridge University Egyptian mummy restored with Lego
How Did Humans Figure Out That Sex Makes Babies? (We've always known, apparently.) -
Links November/December 2012
The Development and Symbolism of Maya Textiles
Tiny jar identifies mighty Maya queen
Cheese first made at least 7,500 years ago
Two Old Kingdom engraved blocks return home - on one of which is the head of a lioness-goddess with a cobra for a hat.
Online Sleuthing Casts Doubt on 'Gospel of Jesus' Wife'
Chocolate and Human Sacrifice - can't ( Read more... ) -
Links September 2012
Monsters from Mesopotamia
Brewing Stone Age beer
Ancient Life-Size Lion Statues Baffle Scientists
Toxipedia - Ebers Papyrus - toxicology and Egyptian medicine