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Egyptologist. Also obsessed with Egyptomania, artistic gymnastics & Tudor history. Interested in many other things.
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Please, cite. 🙂
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Now that's giving Ptah-to some competition.
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We have a zoom link for
Prof. Sarah Symons (McMaster University), “A Life and Death with Stars: Astronomical Tables in Ancient Egyptian Coffins”
Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm EDT!
ZOOM LINK: us02web.zoom.us/j/8480761473...
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Cute little devils. :)
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In the late 80s I was with an amateur modern dance group that performed to Northwest Passage. In my mind I still automatically perform the moves to these words. Etched in my heart & brain.
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More Bes.
Seated Bes, north wall of Sacrarium, Temple of Isis. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
Image from wikimedia
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wa...
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Originally, yes. Then people realized it was too small to be useful & made much bigger ones. Few of the original b-t pots survived because people accidentally swallowed them when they tried to eat the contents.
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Very moo-ving photos.
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This is true.
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Yes?
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"Instead, it needed something else to unlock its nuciferine: a substance akin to olive oil, with fats that allowed the slightly fat-soluble alkaloid to fully dissolve in wine....'We hypothesize they actually created an infused oil, which was later added to wine'."
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"Next, McEvoy wanted to know if the authentic plant's psychedelic elements could be extracted by a soak in red wine. Pure and chemically isolated nuciferine, an alkaloid, is easily dissolved in alcohol, he said. But not a nuciferine-packed flower with a waxy, water-repellent exterior."
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If you like lichen like Jan likes lichen, you really like lichen a lot.
(Sorry, couldn't resist).