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Fascinating reading here about Egyptian cosmology and astronomy through a colonial lens.
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Egyptian Stars under Paris Skies
by Jed Z. Buchwald
One evening in early July of 1822 a group gathered for dinner at the home of...
1822
ancient civilisations
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claude berthollet
dendera
egypt
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françois arago
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jean-baptiste biot
jérome de lalande
john dalton
joseph fourier
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vivant denon
How To Make A Mummy
German Team Finds Secret of Mummies' Preservation
By Chris Slocombe
LONDON (Reuters) - A German research team has unravelled the mystery of how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead, using sophisticated science to track the preservative to an extract of the cedar...
Thousands of mummified cats were quite famously ground up for fertiliser, which is one of the reasons very few of this type of mummy survive today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A641378
Link is dead. No alternative or archived version found.
There's a cat mummy in the medical...
Riddle of the...
I thought there was some report about a hollow room under the paws of the Sphinx (maybe an Edgar Cayce vision) and that the existance of it had been confirmed by science. Does anybody else remeber this and if any excavation has been attempted?
The Great Pyramid
Anyone got any more info on this subject?.
I'm not totally clear, but I recall reading something to suggest that a secret door was to be opened to 1998 that would hopefully reveal the hall of records.
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I noticed in the latest issue of FT there is an ad for a pyramid kit. I've heard before about various strange powers that pyramids are supposed to have such as sharpening razor blades, keeping things fresh etc.
Has anyone here experimented with pyramids? If so, what was the result? Or...
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