Featured here is an evening sky shot of Faiyum, which for millennia was an important oasis in Egypt and definitely a place on my bucket list to see one day. The region preserves an unusual amount of evidence from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Two recurring themes emerge from these sources — the concern with […]
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Here’s an Ancient Egyptian tomb warning for you, just in case you were thinking of violating the resting place of the dead any time soon! In fact, these sorts of warnings were a lot more banal than figure in the imagination — more like “no trespassing” signs and less “curse of the mummy.”.
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This is one of the coolest sources of Ancient Egyptian mythology, dealing with magical healing spells, the myth of the death and resurrection of the God Horus, and, most interesting from my perspective, the enormous power of the Goddess Isis. Dating from 380-342 BCE, the “Metternich Stela” has a hecking ton of hieroglyphs detailing magical
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