Egypt
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Resource: Clines And Clusters Versus "race"
Google Docs Thanks very much to the anonymous comment on a much older post. He/she has provided a new URL for the above article, the original link to which is now broken. The abstract is shown below but click on the above link for the full paper. Clines...
- Egyptians Believed Green Amulet Carried Special Powers
RedOrbit Researchers have reported the discovery of a rare mummified child buried along with a green amulet stone, providing further evidence that the ancient Egyptians believed the stone and the stone’s color itself wielded magical powers. The first...
- Online Paper: Clines And Clusters Versus "race"
http://wysinger.homestead.com/brace.pdf There's really nothing to report today, which is a blessing in some ways because I have to go into town for the rest of the day (which is why there is no "daily photo"), but just to pad things out a bit here's...
- Ancient Egyptian Book From Irish Bog
An eighth century manuscript turned up four years ago in an Irish bog preserved by the chemicals in the peat. The manuscript known as the Faddan More Psalter has preserved about fifteen percent of its Latin contents which was created on papyrus with an...
Egypt
Egyptians’ stone-age roots
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/051217_egyptfrm.htm
An article about a recent study by Joel Irish into the origins of the Badarian. "In the study, Joel Irish of the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed similarities among teeth from almost 1,000 people from various eras of Egyptian history and prehistory and found, he wrote, “overall population continuity” over this roughly 5,000-year span.Irish described the results in a paper in the Dec. 5 online edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. But he noted that while the finding backs up views that some archaeologists have voiced before, it’s partly at odds with some other studies of skeletal remains, so further tests are needed. The different results might stem from different sample sizes or types of data used, he wrote.To the extent that Irish found variations among the teeth, he wrote, many of those that differered most from the norm came from upper-class tombs. That, he added, suggests these nobles had become genetically somewhat apart, perhaps through inbreeding.On the whole, the findings provide a window into a poorly understood question, Irish said: Who were the ancient Egyptians? By providing a glimpse into their possible prehistory, he said, the study may help explain how the Egyptians developed their world-renowned culture, including the great pyramids that still stand.Some studies have also found genetic similarities between ancient and modern Egyptians. These results are debated, but if both they and Irish are right, Egypt’s present-day people and their pyramid-building forebears may largely be part of the same family dating back to the Stone Age".
See the full article for more, including a short overview of the Badarian.
- Exhibition: Fascinating Mummies
Irish Times (Anthony King) The Lady Tentdinebu reclines in a corner room of the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Her brilliantly coloured encasement tells us she once lived in ancient Egypt. When she died around 800 BC in Thebes, her body was preserved...
- Resource: Clines And Clusters Versus "race"
Google Docs Thanks very much to the anonymous comment on a much older post. He/she has provided a new URL for the above article, the original link to which is now broken. The abstract is shown below but click on the above link for the full paper. Clines...
- Egyptians Believed Green Amulet Carried Special Powers
RedOrbit Researchers have reported the discovery of a rare mummified child buried along with a green amulet stone, providing further evidence that the ancient Egyptians believed the stone and the stone’s color itself wielded magical powers. The first...
- Online Paper: Clines And Clusters Versus "race"
http://wysinger.homestead.com/brace.pdf There's really nothing to report today, which is a blessing in some ways because I have to go into town for the rest of the day (which is why there is no "daily photo"), but just to pad things out a bit here's...
- Ancient Egyptian Book From Irish Bog
An eighth century manuscript turned up four years ago in an Irish bog preserved by the chemicals in the peat. The manuscript known as the Faddan More Psalter has preserved about fifteen percent of its Latin contents which was created on papyrus with an...