Egypt
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
- Book Review: Deadly Powers: Animal Predators And The Mythic Imagination
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián) Paul A. Trout, Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011. Pp. 325. ISBN 9781616145019. Trout’s book presents...
- Conference Report: Racy Poetry From The Amarna Period
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Short article about love and sex in Amarna poetry as presented by Vincent Tobin at the recent Toronto conference. One of the most unusual presentations on Egyptology that I’ve seen in awhile took place at the Egypt symposium...
- Investigations Into The Domestication Of The Dog
New York Times (Nicholas Wade) Oh okay, slightly off topic, but it is a quiet news day today. Few people spend their honeymoon catching and drawing blood from village dogs up and down Africa. But Ryan and Corin Boyko, two anthropologists at the University...
- Archaeologists Dig Up 'oldest' African Human Sacrifice In Sudan
Yahoo! News It has been a good month for prehsitory in the Nile area! French archaeologists in Sudan say they have uncovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa, hailing the discovery as the biggest Neolithic find on the continent for years....
- Animal Mummies And A Mysterious Statue
This past summer a team of archaeologists led by professor Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto found the tomb of a priest at Abydos and temple storerooms including the discovery of 85 animal mummies. The mummies appear to be mostly...
Egypt
Conference Report: Of dogs and men
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
Beverley Miles, a doctoral candidate at MacQuarie University in Australia, has been researching the relationship that dogs and humans had – during the time that the pyramids were built. She presented her results at an Egyptology symposium in Toronto a week ago - and they are not for those of a delicate disposition!
She’s found some pretty convincing evidence – in the form of three pieces of art – that dogs and humans shared a very close relationship.
How close?
Well, one artefact, pictured here, depicts a human male making mouth to muzzle contact with a dog. “These objects are highly unusual,” said Miles. “Such interactions are extraordinary in the light of the renowned conservatism of Ancient Egyptian society.”
Human to human contact is rare during this time, she explained, “much less between human and animal.”
So why are the humans getting so close to dogs?
- Book Review: Deadly Powers: Animal Predators And The Mythic Imagination
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián) Paul A. Trout, Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2011. Pp. 325. ISBN 9781616145019. Trout’s book presents...
- Conference Report: Racy Poetry From The Amarna Period
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Short article about love and sex in Amarna poetry as presented by Vincent Tobin at the recent Toronto conference. One of the most unusual presentations on Egyptology that I’ve seen in awhile took place at the Egypt symposium...
- Investigations Into The Domestication Of The Dog
New York Times (Nicholas Wade) Oh okay, slightly off topic, but it is a quiet news day today. Few people spend their honeymoon catching and drawing blood from village dogs up and down Africa. But Ryan and Corin Boyko, two anthropologists at the University...
- Archaeologists Dig Up 'oldest' African Human Sacrifice In Sudan
Yahoo! News It has been a good month for prehsitory in the Nile area! French archaeologists in Sudan say they have uncovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa, hailing the discovery as the biggest Neolithic find on the continent for years....
- Animal Mummies And A Mysterious Statue
This past summer a team of archaeologists led by professor Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the University of Toronto found the tomb of a priest at Abydos and temple storerooms including the discovery of 85 animal mummies. The mummies appear to be mostly...