Egypt
- Astronomical Interest In The Big Dipper
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) New research on a 2,400 year old star table shows that the Ancient Egyptians kept close tabs on the Big Dipper, monitoring changes in the constellation’s orientation throughout the course of an entire year. The Big Dipper is...
- In The Field: More Re Temple Of The Cat Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During routine excavations near the Roman theatre at Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, an archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the remains of a temple built by Queen Berenike, wife...
- Hair Extensions From Hierakonpolis
Pop Omnivore This post on the National Geographic's blog Pop Omnivore actually dates to October, but it is one of the items featured in the inaugural edition of the Carnival of Curiosities Blog Carnival (for an explanation of blog carnivals see the...
- More Re Sale Of Ramesses Ii Hair
I was wondering when I posted it yesterday if this story would turn into a controversy: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=iol1164798215148F622"Egypt warned France on Wednesday that anything short of full cooperation in the...
- Statue Of Queen Ti Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/btf4g (Al Jazeera) "A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly...
Egypt
Saturday Trivia
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/outdoors/14556294.htm
There's only one piece of trivia today. This is to be found in a meteorology piece about the constellation Coma Berenices, and contains the piece of trivia knowledge that Coma Berenices is the only constellation named after a real person, and supplies the story: "Coma Berenices is the only constellation named after an actual person. Queen Berenices was the wife of Ptolemy III, a famous Egyptian pharaoh who lived around 200 B.C. According to the story, Pharaoh was leading his troops into a fierce war. Queen Berenices was a devoted spouse and prayed for his safe return. She was so desperate to see him again she promised to cut off her beautiful hair if her husband returned safe and sound. So, about a year later, when Ptolemy returned victorious, the queen cut off all of her hair and dedicated it to the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. But just days later, some souvenir-seeking scoundrels swiped Berenices' hair from the temple."
The rest of the myth can be found on the above page.
- Astronomical Interest In The Big Dipper
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) New research on a 2,400 year old star table shows that the Ancient Egyptians kept close tabs on the Big Dipper, monitoring changes in the constellation’s orientation throughout the course of an entire year. The Big Dipper is...
- In The Field: More Re Temple Of The Cat Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) During routine excavations near the Roman theatre at Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, an archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has discovered the remains of a temple built by Queen Berenike, wife...
- Hair Extensions From Hierakonpolis
Pop Omnivore This post on the National Geographic's blog Pop Omnivore actually dates to October, but it is one of the items featured in the inaugural edition of the Carnival of Curiosities Blog Carnival (for an explanation of blog carnivals see the...
- More Re Sale Of Ramesses Ii Hair
I was wondering when I posted it yesterday if this story would turn into a controversy: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=iol1164798215148F622"Egypt warned France on Wednesday that anything short of full cooperation in the...
- Statue Of Queen Ti Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/btf4g (Al Jazeera) "A US archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says. The statue, mostly...