The Role of Birds across the Religious Landscape of Ancient Egypt
Because of the close association between departed humans and the divine world, the metaphors evoked by avian imagery have further significance for under-standing the Egyptians’ conception of the afterlife.
Ancient Egyptian herbal wines
The dry climate of Egypt has similarly contributed to excellent preservation of ancient organic materials, in addition to providing very detailed literary and botanical evidence for medicinal wines from one of the most long-standing ancient traditions.
Ancient Egyptian herbal wines
The dry climate of Egypt has similarly contributed to excellent preservation of ancient organic materials, in addition to providing very detailed literary and botanical evidence for medicinal wines from one of the most long-standing ancient traditions.
Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which Emerged the Egyptian Civilisation
Until the 1980s, there was alack of archaeological excavation in Egypt’s WesternDesert. Today, the historical genetics of the Nile Valley,which is at one and the same time the ‘crossroad and refugium’, and the ‘Saharan affinities’ of the Predynastic Egyptians, have begun to be clearly identified
A brief journey into medical care and disease in ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptians suffered from a variety of diseases, both congenital and acquired, which developed as a result of their
cultural practices and environment.
ROMAN FORT ENVIRONS GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AT TRAWSCOED ROMAN FORT AND ERGLODD FORTLET
The 2006 surveys were carried out using a Bartington Grad601 dual gradiometer which consists of two gradiometers working in tandem. These instruments detect variations in the earth’s magnetic field caused by the presence of iron in the soil.
1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
University of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city.
Rare bronze rams from the First Punic War discovered
The ten rams (Latin rostra), each weighing around 125 kilogrammes and made of bronze, were mounted on the prow of the warships (ancient triremes or quinquiremes), and were used to ram the enemy ships.
An Iron Age Temple Dedicated to Lug?: The henge at Lismullin, County Meath
This paper suggests that this Iron Age enclosure may have been connected to worship of the Celtic God Lug.
The Subsidiary Temple of Nekhtnebef at Tell el-Balamun
The subsidiary temple constructed by Nekhtnebef (Nectanebo I) as a barque-station on the cross-axis of the Amun-Temple at Tell el-Balamun has been the subject of excavation during various seasons of excavation at the site by the British Museum, most recently in Spring 2004. The accumulated understanding of the monument gained through this work is now sufficient to present some conclusions on its design and how it compares with other temples of the period.