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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...

The former home of the late Michael Nesmith, a member of the iconic made-for-TV band, The Monkees, is up for grabs. Nesmith, who died in 2021, lived in this three-bedroom, 3.5-bath home in Carmel Valley, CA, about 20 minutes from the coast. The house is listed for $3.5 million. The ranch-style pad is spread over 3,365 square feet, all tucked into a gated community called Sleepy Hollow. The dwelling sits on more than 6 acres, surrounded by majestic oaks and stunning vistas. The living room features a vaulted, beamed ceiling with large windows and a brick fireplace. This main room...

Michael Nesmith, singer/guitarist for the famously famous 60s group The Monkees, has died.

Singer and musician Mike Nesmith, who found fame with the Monkees in the 1960s before becoming a solo act and a pioneer in music video, has died.His death comes less than a month after his final Monkees concert.

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Michael Nesmith, the guitar-playing singer-songwriter with the wool hat who along with Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz became a TV star and 1960s pop sensation as a member of The Monkees, has died. He was 78. Nesmith died Friday of natural causes, his family told Rolling Stone.

Monkees singer and guitarist Michael Nesmith, a pop visionary who penned many of the group’s most enduring songs before laying the groundwork for country-rock with the First National Band in the early Seventies, died Friday from natural causes. He was 78.

Mike Nesmith was one of The Monkees, that manufactured band from the mid and late 60's. After the band folded, Mike went solo with two bands and had some minor hits. In 1977, he produced an obscure song titled 'Rio', a song which never even made it into the Top 40, and if the truth be told, not many people would even remember having heard. What sequence of events, perhaps even coincidences, make this song one of the most influential songs of the modern music era, and gives Mike Nesmith a claim to fame way more important than the one...

"I was producing a movie called Square Dance in Texas. It was a starring part for Winona Ryder, who was fourteen or fifteen. She said, "Aren't the Monkees gonna play in Arlington?" which was just up the road from where we were filming. I said, "Yeah." And she said, "Do you think you could get me tickets?" And I said, "Well, yeah, I probably could." And she said, "I'd really like to go -- would you take me?" And I said "No, I won't take you. I can't possibly do that." She said, "Why not?" I said, "Nonie, I am...