Egypt
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- Book Reviews: Medicinal Properties Of Corpses
Smithsonian.com (Maria Dolan) The last line of a 17th century poem by John Donne prompted Louise Noble’s quest. “Women,” the line read, are not only “Sweetness and wit,” but “mummy, possessed.” Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her...
- Travel : Siwa Oasis
Al Ahram Weekly (Ameera Fouad) Once upon a time, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said he knew a fountain of the sun that ran coldest in the noontide heat. Once upon a time, Queen Cleopatra made herself a bath and a spring in which to bathe in the...
- Feature: Ozymandias
The Guardian, UK (Carol Rumens) The Shelleys' circle enjoyed setting each other themed writing contests: the most famous work to have emerged from such a pastime is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's less well-known that Shelley's most...
- Book Review: Anubio, Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum.
Bryn Mawr Classics (Reviewed by Roger Beck, University of Toronto) Dirk Obbink (ed.), Anubio, Carmen astrologicum elegiacum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2006. Anoubion (hereafter A.), probably of Egyptian Thebes, composed...
- Ancient Poem's Insight Into Suicide
http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/psychiatry/suicide/article_4679.shtml "Analysis of an ancient Egyptian poem by a psychiatrist and an Egyptologist shows that it describes the psychopathology of suicide with great accuracy.Dispute over Suicide was a poem...
Egypt
2600 Year Old Love Poem
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"A love poem written 2,600 years ago by Sappho, the female poet of ancient Greece, was published for the first time since it was rediscovered last year. The 12-line poem, only the fourth to have been recovered, was found on papyrus wrapped around an Egyptian mummy. Some of the verse fragments on the crumbling Cologne material matched parts of lines already identified as Sappho's on a papyrus discovered in 1922." See this very short item for a little more detail about the poem.
- Book Reviews: Medicinal Properties Of Corpses
Smithsonian.com (Maria Dolan) The last line of a 17th century poem by John Donne prompted Louise Noble’s quest. “Women,” the line read, are not only “Sweetness and wit,” but “mummy, possessed.” Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her...
- Travel : Siwa Oasis
Al Ahram Weekly (Ameera Fouad) Once upon a time, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus said he knew a fountain of the sun that ran coldest in the noontide heat. Once upon a time, Queen Cleopatra made herself a bath and a spring in which to bathe in the...
- Feature: Ozymandias
The Guardian, UK (Carol Rumens) The Shelleys' circle enjoyed setting each other themed writing contests: the most famous work to have emerged from such a pastime is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's less well-known that Shelley's most...
- Book Review: Anubio, Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum.
Bryn Mawr Classics (Reviewed by Roger Beck, University of Toronto) Dirk Obbink (ed.), Anubio, Carmen astrologicum elegiacum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2006. Anoubion (hereafter A.), probably of Egyptian Thebes, composed...
- Ancient Poem's Insight Into Suicide
http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/psychiatry/suicide/article_4679.shtml "Analysis of an ancient Egyptian poem by a psychiatrist and an Egyptologist shows that it describes the psychopathology of suicide with great accuracy.Dispute over Suicide was a poem...