Posted on 03/19/2026 2:46:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The modified picture was found in a copy of the Book of the Dead made for a royal scribe named Ramose, whose tomb was discovered by William Flinders Petrie in 1922. The image shows Ramose placing his hands on the body of a jackal, identified as Wepwawet, a god of war and hunting. Bold, white lines had been applied to either side of the jackal's body and the upper halves of its back legs. "It's as if someone saw the original the way the jackal was painted and said, 'it's too fat; make it thinner,'" said Fitzwilliam Museum curator Helen Strudwick. When examined with infrared photography and a 3D digital microscope, Strudwick and her colleagues confirmed that the white lines, a mixture of calcite and huntite, had been painted over the black of the jackal's figure. Flecks of yellow had been added to the white mixture, presumably to help the correction blend with the color of the papyrus, which would have been much paler 3,300 years ago than it is today.
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Better than pyromania.
Those were innocent, prehistoric times.
Back when SNL was even funny.
Remember when The Fonz got into the act?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI
Father Time and Mother Nature are a couple of [characterization deleted]s.
They used it when their secretary misspelled a hieroglyph on their Underworld typewriter.
LOL. Imagine an IBM Selectric ball big enough to reproduce all the hieroglyphs. Hazard to everyone in the scribes’ workshop.
I’ve uste tywmwriters thot hud half inx und hulf white out ribbons.
Did Mike Nesmith know about this??
People with Ibizan Hounds speculated that the Jackal is actually a dog and because “jackal headed” Anubis was a psychopomp whose color was always black, it could be a mashup of myth and reality
Also so-called Pharaoh Hounds are a recent invention, nowhere near as ancient as Ibizans.
Thanks!
We’ve all got Mike on our mind when wite-out gets mentioned
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His last words? “What am I doin’ hangin’ ‘round?”
Sucks he’s gone
He was an underrated genius and the only reason I watched that goofy show.
Such a dry wit.
I watched it because I was in elementary school; also “Malibu U”, which if memory serves followed it. Watched Time Tunnel when I could get away with it, I think that was on that same night.
Do you remember The Banana Splits and HR Puffenstuff?
It’s no wonder we were out running feral as kids.
Trying to escape all that crazy psychedelia on TV.
That freaky talking flute was enough to drive us into the woods.
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As an art history major/studio minor with a concentration in medieval art, I still recall reading about one of the Roman emperors (Caligula or Elagabulus?) who fancied himself something of a scribe and would use the (detached) tongues of his enemies to blot up ink and make corrections on his manuscripts.
Puf’n’stuf and his arch-enemy Witchie-poo? And the Bugaloos, The Double Deckers, I think all from the same British producer. The Banana Splits I don’t recall watching, but remember the name — a fake band I think, but live action unlike The Archies. And Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp — they sometimes had a musical segment on that show too. But I think we came out relatively normal, probably because no pushing of transgender delusions on those shows.
Yup, all that proto Muppet madness
Saturday morning was all that and then late afternoon creature features brought Mushroom People, Triffids and Reptilicus because what kid really needs to sleep at night
* between Attack of the Mushroom People and The Beguiled, I STILL will not eat any kind of mushrooms
I watched the first of those on a beautiful summer day on the family black and white, it’s had several different titles I think, and different dubbed dialogue (not exact translations of the original) but I don’t remember its making sense. Or maybe I should say, no wonder I don’t remember its making sense.
Wow, that took a little more looking than usual:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057295/
The Beguiled, hmm, didn’t think I’d heard of it, but now I’m pretty sure I watched that around the same time, I remember a Clint Eastwood scene.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066819/
I wasn’t allowed to watch “Land of the Giants”, and the one time I sneaked an episode at a friend’s house a character got eaten by a spider, so I lost interest in the show for some reason.
BTW, the Muppets go back to my preschool days, Ralph (Rowlf) the Dog used to show up on the Jimmy Dean show, or at least his New Year’s Eve special.
Hmm, I’ll be darned, and yes, I do scare myself sometimes:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254906/
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