One of *those* topics.
Posted on 11/07/2023 8:55:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Egyptian archaeologists recently located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues... A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare surviving copy of the traditional burial item...
While the cemetery—dating to sometime between 1550 BC to 1070 BC—was significant for the hundreds of archaeological finds and tombs carved into the rock located within its boundaries, the discovery of what could be a copy of the Book of the Dead captured the attention of experts as a truly rare find. But with few details released to the public about the contents of the scroll—believed to be 43 to 49 feet in length—there's plenty of questions remaining about this particular copy of the traditional Egyptian cultural book...
A book more properly translated as "The Chapters/Book of Going Forth By Day" played a key role in ancient Egyptian culture. Any examples of the text give researchers insight into ancient Egyptian religion and beliefs about an afterlife, according to the American Research Center in Egypt...
While the Book of the Dead may continue to interest researchers—the Egyptian ministry says they expect the scroll to be displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum—the text wasn't the only item found in the burial chambers.
The team located stone and wood coffins containing mummies, more than 25,000 ushabti statues, an untold number of utensils, thousands of stone and wooden amulets, and canopic jars. The engraved and colored wooden coffins—including that of Ta-de-Isa, daughter of Eret Haru, the high priest of Djehuti in Al-Ashmunin—were highlights of the collection. Next to her coffin were two wooden boxes with her canopic vessels, in addition to a complete set of ushabti statues and a statue of the ostrich-like deity, Ptah Sokar.
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Well, where else would you expect it to be?
Me too.
'Nurieek', 'rotut', 'hernunger'...
Don’t read it out loud!...................
Klaatu Barada Nikto!..............sounds familiar...............🤦♂️
“You must not read from the book!”
Archaeologists will release the mummy.
You must not read from the book!!!
and a "no bullshit" account of Caesar in Gaul would be nice. Thanks!
They are finally making progress on the "read without unrolling" project.
While I would love to read Claudius' work I also want to read some of the fiction by authors we may not even know about.
The fiction of a society tells you a lot about them.
Gort thinks so too.
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