Egypt
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study (pp. 1-172)
A. Mark Smith
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Wired.com (Jason B. Jones) 1822: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt. The story of the...
- Abzu Anniversary
Ancient World Bloggers Group (Charles Ellwood Jones) It is great to see that ABZU has been online for 15 years. Here's what Chuck Jones has to say: Abzu just began its fifteenth year online. I should have baked it a cake over the weekend, but I didn't....
- Some Recent Open Access Journal Material
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- New Book: The Mathematics Of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, And Islam
Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook Edited by Victor J. Katz Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben, Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren In recent decades...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...
Egypt
New in JSTOR: Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics
Thanks to Chuck Jones's post of 9th December to the Ancient World Bloggers group for the information that the following article is now available in JSTOR for those of you who have access:
Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study (pp. 1-172)
A. Mark Smith
- Rosetta Stone Unlocks Egyptian History
Wired.com (Jason B. Jones) 1822: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt. The story of the...
- Abzu Anniversary
Ancient World Bloggers Group (Charles Ellwood Jones) It is great to see that ABZU has been online for 15 years. Here's what Chuck Jones has to say: Abzu just began its fifteenth year online. I should have baked it a cake over the weekend, but I didn't....
- Some Recent Open Access Journal Material
Ancient World Bloggers Charles Ellwood Jones, who is almost an icon in the information sharing world, has published a list of open source material on the Ancient World Bloggers Group. The material includes items on Egypt and Nubia in Spanish, French and...
- New Book: The Mathematics Of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, And Islam
Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook Edited by Victor J. Katz Section Authors: Annette Imhausen, Eleanor Robson, Joseph W. Dauben, Kim Plofker & J. Lennart Berggren In recent decades...
- Buried At The Temple
This is a roundup of the recent excavations going on at the temple of Taposiris Magna by an Egyptian Dominican team including the discovery of a headless statue of a King with the cartouche of Ptolemy IV. The article also speculates about the burial of...