full title: "Identity Unearthed: A paper co-authored by a UCSB anthropologist details how excavations in Sudan reveal the transformation Egyptian and Nubian culture".
Professor Stuart Tyson Smith opens an intact tomb with the coffined, mummified burial of an elderly woman inside. Her name was Weret, and she was buried with a heart scarab, which the Egyptians believed help the deceased have a favorable outcome in the divine judgement.

1 posted on
03/06/2016 6:13:35 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: Yashcheritsiy
4 posted on
03/06/2016 6:28:10 PM PST by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: SunkenCiv
“BCE” vs. “BC” really annoys me. It was introduced simply because people cannot abide hearing “Christ”. What does “common era” mean anyway?
5 posted on
03/06/2016 6:29:27 PM PST by
beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: SunkenCiv
Cultural entanglement translates in plain English to the Egyptians taking home their Nubian booty.
6 posted on
03/06/2016 6:40:38 PM PST by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
To: SunkenCiv
Ramses had Nubians painted on the soles of his sandals so with every step, he could trod on his enemies.
7 posted on
03/06/2016 6:46:59 PM PST by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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