Egypt
- More Re Ancient Egyptian Insights Into Suicide
http://tinyurl.com/h8c8c Thanks very much to N. Doyle for his comment at the above page, which offers some helpful explanation about the somewhat confusing article published re ancient Egyptian insights into suicide. The demystification is much appreciated!Egyptology...
- More On The Sappho Love Poem
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1513491,00.html?gusrc=rss "The poem which is now her fourth to survive had a tortuous and not unromantic discovery. It was found in the cartonnage of an Egyptian mummy, the flexible layer of fibre or papyrus...
- The Murder Of Ramesses Iii: Revision
Recent CT scans on the mummy of ancient Egypt's last great Pharaoh Rameses III has found evidence that the king was murdered by having his throat slit. The murder of Ramesses was long suspected from a 3000 year old document known as the harem conspiracy...
- Cobra Kisses
Cleopatra's death in 30 bc at the hands of an Egyptian asp is the stuff of legend but there is others who doubt this. A death by snake bite would have been a slow pain full death and that more than likely the Egyptian ruler took a quicker more...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...
Egypt
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 written by an unnamed Egyptian writer between 2000 and 1740 BC on papyrus in hieroglyphics.The writer is known as ‘The Eloquent Peasant’, and was commissioned by King Meri-ka-re to write a poem in order to dissuade people from committing suicide.
"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 written by an unnamed Egyptian writer between 2000 and 1740 BC on papyrus in hieroglyphics.The writer is known as ‘The Eloquent Peasant’, and was commissioned by King Meri-ka-re to write a poem in order to dissuade people from committing suicide.
Suicide as a form of human behaviour is probably as ancient as man himself. Attitudes towards those who take their own lives have veered between condemnation and tolerance throughout the ages.It is possible that moral and cultural views about suicide have affected its incidence, statistics on suicide, and even coroners’ verdicts. An historical approach makes it possible to understand what meaning suicide has for people with different experiences from different backgrounds and generations.
Dr. George Tadros, a consultant psychiatrist, and Dr. Ahmes Pahor, an Egyptologist and ENT consultant, used a computer programme with special software for qualitative analysis to assess the poem."
See the above web page for the full story.
Thanks to Kat Newkirk for pointing out that this is also covered at:
Thanks to Kat Newkirk for pointing out that this is also covered at:
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1004112006
"The analysis suggests ancient civilisations could provide insight into wider mental health issues. It comes as the Royal College of Psychiatrists gathers in Glasgow for its annual meeting today."This is the full item on the Scotsman website. Comments are enabled on the site, but only one has been made so far.
- More Re Ancient Egyptian Insights Into Suicide
http://tinyurl.com/h8c8c Thanks very much to N. Doyle for his comment at the above page, which offers some helpful explanation about the somewhat confusing article published re ancient Egyptian insights into suicide. The demystification is much appreciated!Egyptology...
- More On The Sappho Love Poem
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1513491,00.html?gusrc=rss "The poem which is now her fourth to survive had a tortuous and not unromantic discovery. It was found in the cartonnage of an Egyptian mummy, the flexible layer of fibre or papyrus...
- The Murder Of Ramesses Iii: Revision
Recent CT scans on the mummy of ancient Egypt's last great Pharaoh Rameses III has found evidence that the king was murdered by having his throat slit. The murder of Ramesses was long suspected from a 3000 year old document known as the harem conspiracy...
- Cobra Kisses
Cleopatra's death in 30 bc at the hands of an Egyptian asp is the stuff of legend but there is others who doubt this. A death by snake bite would have been a slow pain full death and that more than likely the Egyptian ruler took a quicker more...
- Unknown Man "e"
This is the mummy I hear called Pentaware but better known as "Unknown man E". Many of the last one hundred and twenty five years most famous Egyptologist's have believed that this could be the body of this Twentieth Dynasty prince who was found...