Egypt
- Mummy's Secrets Revealed By 3d Holography Imaging
The Archaeology News Network Egyptian Mummies shrouded for over 2000 years could be set to give up their inner secrets like never before. Thanks to a 3D hologram imaging process developed by Edinburgh-based Holoxica, the Rhind Mummy has been revealed...
- Rhind Mummy Under The Scanner
MarketWatch Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume Rendering(R) software from California-based Fovia, Inc....
- Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form On Egyptian Papyrus
New York Times (Pam Belluck) I met a man with seven wives. ...” You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts. It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives...
- Egyptian Math Problems
Let's Play Math! (Denise) This is a blog devoted to mathematical problems. This rent post on the blog takes a problem from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: This week’s page from my old newsletter contains a math “magic trick” from the Rhind...
- The Ahmes Code
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/heritage.htm"The Egyptians needed fractions to divide food and supplies according to specific ratios. Fractions were so important that of the 87 problems in the Ahmes Papyrus only six did not involve them. Likewise,...
Egypt
Last chance to see Rhind Papyrus
http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=9899
"The Egypt Centre at Swansea University will say goodbye to one of Ancient Egypt's most mysterious artefacts next week, when the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is returned to its permanent home at the British Museum .A section of the famous Rhind has formed the centrepiece of a year-long exhibition at the Egypt Centre, after it was loaned to the museum under the British Museum 's Partnership Scheme.Visitors to the centre, where entry is free of charge, will have a last chance to see perhaps the most famous of the British Museum's magnificent collection of Egyptian papyri until Tuesday 21 November.
The Rhind was originally a roll 513cm long by 32cm high and came from an unknown site in ancient Thebes , now Luxor .Beginning with the rather grandiose introduction, Accurate reckoning. The entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets, the text consists of 84 mathematical problems, which concern the doubling of odd-numbered unit fractions relating to commerce. The Greeks were still using the same system 2000 years later."
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- Mummy's Secrets Revealed By 3d Holography Imaging
The Archaeology News Network Egyptian Mummies shrouded for over 2000 years could be set to give up their inner secrets like never before. Thanks to a 3D hologram imaging process developed by Edinburgh-based Holoxica, the Rhind Mummy has been revealed...
- Rhind Mummy Under The Scanner
MarketWatch Two thousand years ago, using state-of-the-art mummification techniques, a mummy was entombed in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Now, using state-of-the-art High Definition Volume Rendering(R) software from California-based Fovia, Inc....
- Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form On Egyptian Papyrus
New York Times (Pam Belluck) I met a man with seven wives. ...” You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts. It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives...
- Egyptian Math Problems
Let's Play Math! (Denise) This is a blog devoted to mathematical problems. This rent post on the blog takes a problem from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: This week’s page from my old newsletter contains a math “magic trick” from the Rhind...
- The Ahmes Code
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/heritage.htm"The Egyptians needed fractions to divide food and supplies according to specific ratios. Fractions were so important that of the 87 problems in the Ahmes Papyrus only six did not involve them. Likewise,...