Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of GizaA discussion of some of the most important sites associated with ancient Egypt.(more) See all videos for this article Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of KhufuSide view of the Sphinx with the Gr...
mainly from Tyre and Sidon in modern Lebanon. The Phoenicians were looking not for land to settle but for anchorages and staging points on the trade route fromPhoeniciatoSpain, a source of silver and tin. Points on analternativeroute by way ofSicily, Sardinia, and theBalearic Islandsalso were...
valley for the production of medications and drugs. Helen appears, in another context, in association with the fight against a dangerous Egyptian snake, an episode that still links her to drugs and venom. Nicander of Colophon (Theriaca309–19) related that Canopus, the pilot who led Menela...
We used the ‘qp3pop’ tool from the Admixtools package39to compute Outgroup f3-statistics of the form f3(Mbuti; Egyptian, X), where ‘Egyptian’ means either ancient and modern Egyptian, and ‘X’ runs over all populations in the merged data set. For the plot inFig. 5b, we ordered ...
Egyptian medicine was a mixture of magical and rational treatments. Both methods were equally valid: when the cause was visible and objective, scientific treatments were used and when the cause was hidden (and could be a punishment from the gods or the ill wishes of enemies), magic was employ...
1 Studies of Egyptian words that might be translated as ‘archive’ or ‘library’ have not made much progress in understanding the ancient institutions they denote; see e.g. Trapani 2008. There is also a fundamental methodological problem in trying to map essentially modern cate-gories and ...
The route of the Silk Road on the map highlights the possibility of disease transfers between various geographical locations in ancient times. Also, a specific pathogen imported into a new location could have been eliminated due to changes in socio-religious codes after a certain period. These ...
its origins are most certainly ancient and stretch far back into the foggy mists of time. It is thought to date from around 1700 BC and has the distinction of being one of only five sites in Ireland that are marked on the Egyptian geographer Ptolemy’s (c 90-168) 2nd-century map of ...
But the zone has a nice Egyptian mythos theme to it and some really nice settings and clearly a lot of work went into some of it. There are a few temples and set piece locations that are quite nice. This looks pretty good and I bet those guys totally don’t come alive or anything ...
Tutankhamun's headrestHeadrest in the form of the god Shu with two crouching lions, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, 14th centurybce; in the collection of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Virtually all the tombs in the valley were cleared out in antiquity. Some had been partially robbed during the ...