Egypt
- Medicinal Beer In Nubia
Santa Cruz Sentinel I need a beer. It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday...
- Egypt's Sin City (hall Of Drunkenness, Karnak)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/12/224088.aspx "Over the past six years, Bryan's online expeditions have documented 3,400-year-old rites at the temple that were conducted to appease the gods and give vent to some of the age-old animal...
- Tut, Tut, Those Hedonists
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1833780,0012.htm One of the more light hearted looks at this week's news that John Hopkins have uncovered scenes of debauchery at Luxor: "The ruins of a temple in Luxor in Egypt point to a discovery that could...
- Sex And Booze Figured In Egyptian Rite
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/A short piece describing new scenes found depicting the so-called Festival of Drunkeness: "Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the...
- More On Cleopatra Dressed As A Man (with Photos)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050919/cleodrag.html"A relief image carved approximately 2,050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, according to a recent analysis of the artifact. The object is only one...
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian New Year greeted with Dance and Beer
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051226/drunkegypt_arc.html
"Many ancient Egyptians marked the first month of the New Year by singing, dancing and drinking red beer until they passed out, according to archaeologists who have unearthed new evidence of a ritual known as the Festival of Drunkenness. During ongoing excavations at a temple precinct in Luxor that is dedicated to the goddess Mut, the archaeologists recently found a sandstone column drum dating to 1470-1460 B.C. with writing that mentions the festival."
See the Discovery web page above, for the full story.
- Medicinal Beer In Nubia
Santa Cruz Sentinel I need a beer. It's a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the stress of everyday...
- Egypt's Sin City (hall Of Drunkenness, Karnak)
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/06/12/224088.aspx "Over the past six years, Bryan's online expeditions have documented 3,400-year-old rites at the temple that were conducted to appease the gods and give vent to some of the age-old animal...
- Tut, Tut, Those Hedonists
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1833780,0012.htm One of the more light hearted looks at this week's news that John Hopkins have uncovered scenes of debauchery at Luxor: "The ruins of a temple in Luxor in Egypt point to a discovery that could...
- Sex And Booze Figured In Egyptian Rite
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/A short piece describing new scenes found depicting the so-called Festival of Drunkeness: "Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the...
- More On Cleopatra Dressed As A Man (with Photos)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050919/cleodrag.html"A relief image carved approximately 2,050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, according to a recent analysis of the artifact. The object is only one...