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Some believe that the modern spring festival derives from Shemu, morphing eventually into the Coptic Shom Ennisim, before taking on its current Egyptian Arabic form of Sham El Nessim, to breathe in the spring breeze. Traditional foods include 🥚, mullet, scallions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham_En...

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Anubis on International Day of the Jackal

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Tomb of the son of of King Userkaf, first pharaoh of Dynasty V, discovered

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A little humour All very clever, but my personal favourite may be Ptah-to

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At the Cleveland Museum of Art to give a lecture on late Roman charioteer factions tonight, but snuck off to the galleries to see one of three mummy portraits from Roman Egypt in the collection. This young woman may be a priestess of Isis and thus has gilded lips (25-37 CE, encaustic on wood).

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2 Days to this Free Hybrid Event Prof. Sarah Symons, “A Life and Death with Stars: Astronomical Tables in Ancient Egyptian Coffins” Weds., April 16 at 7pm edt ONLINE us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... IN PERSON University College, Rm 244, University of Toronto 15 King’s College Circle Toronto, ON

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Grey mystery objectsvat Pompeii. What are they? youtu.be/dWHuaSCb86I?...

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In less than 2 hours!

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Wooden top to a police standard depicting a figure kneeling beneath an image of the god Wepwawet on a stand. Found in the Sanctuary of the Main Chapel. Workmen's Village of Amarna amarnaproject.com/pages/amarna...

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A meticulous critique of one of the many voices of paseudoarchaeology on YouTube. It explains how claims of a conspiracy were spun where none exists. youtu.be/OHyHkQo8vFQ

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Joyeaux

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NATIONAL INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES DAY has been celebrated since March 31, 1993. Hello -- Wâciye (Cree) – Aaniin (Ojibway) – Boozhoo (Ojibway) – Kwey Kwey (Algonquin) – Shé:kon (Mohawk) – Tansi (Cree) – Taanishi (Michif) – Halu (Inuktitut) These are just a few of the 70 aboriginal languages spoken in 🇨🇦

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Prof. Sarah Symons, “A Life and Death with Stars: Astronomical Tables in Ancient Egyptian Coffins” Wednesday, April 16 at 7 pm Where? ONLINE* & in person University College, Room UC 244, University of Toronto 15 King’s College Circle Toronto, ON * zoom link to follow Ancientbluesky

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A thread about Stan Rogers prompted me to see if those other Maritime 🍁 icons, Great Big Sea, had ever done a version of Northwest Passage. I was not disappointed: youtu.be/gS-BzgF6xkQ?...

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Just because

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For a late #FrescoFriday, superb paintings from #Herculaneum depicting a ceremony at the temple of Isis, with palm trees, Ibises, and priests and priestesses, some with sistrums (rattles). A priest disguised as the god Bes performs a ritual dance on the podium steps. 🏺 1/ 1st c. CE, #MANN

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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at new research reconstructing the smells of ancient mummification processes & Egyptian perfumes. I love a good olfactory study—but also that they chose to study Cairo over European-held examples for better chemical analysis. hyperallergic.com/998360/archa...

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Look, mushrooms in the shape of Predynastic Black-Topped Ware🖤🧡! Or are Black-topped ware pots in the shape of dumontina tuberosa?

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Illustration in a 12th century homiliary, showing a self-portrait of the female scribe and illuminator Guda.

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Tragic news for the heritage of Sudan 😢

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In the course of cataloguing Egyptian materials preserved in the museum, Drs Annamaria Azzolini & Barbara Gilli identified 4 fragments of the Book of the Dead of Senemnetjer (ca 1479-1425 BCE)

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Imagine someone finding an unopened letter to you, 4,000 years from now. A birthday card, a bank statement, an unpaid invoice. Some unopened letters survive from ancient Mesopotamia. They are clay tablets wrapped in clay envelopes impressed with info about sender and recipient.

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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures posted this brick from the reign of Ur-Ningishzida from the site of Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna) in Iraq. A dog walked across the drying brick, a fleeting act that has been preserved for millennia in the clay. A8987A, Isin-Larsa period (ca. 1900 BCE)

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Happy 🌍🌎🌏 Bear Day!

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ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ Word of the day ᐅᐱᕐᖓᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ Upirngaqtillugu U-pirn-gaq-til-lu-gu First day of spring (Image: Kenojuak Ashevak's Sunburst Owl) Check out the link below! ᖃᐅᔨᒋᐊᕐᓗᒍ ᓇᕿᑐᐃᓐᓇᕆᐊᓕᒃ ᐊᑖᓂ! soundcloud.com/user-8176997... Originally posted at www.facebook.com/share/p/18ap...

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Vase Bearing Title and Name of King Pepi I. Inscription: Vertically written, preceded by "nsw-bity" and followed by "djet ankh." "The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, (title in cartouche), the Son of Hathor, Lady of Dendera, Pepi, who liveth [for]ever.

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" Among the most striking finds was a gold ring engraved with the cartouche of Ramesses III...." www.facebook.com/share/p/16KB...

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Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a military commander who served under King Ramesses III, shedding new light on the defensive fortifications that once protected Egypt’s eastern frontier. www.facebook.com/share/p/16KB...

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“What your eyes have seen they have seen. Once you see the injustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and defend the oppressor. What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude.” Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘The Wave in the Mind’

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Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Hieratic ca. 1539–1292 B.C.E. 2 sheets of an accounting papyrus inscribed on both sides. The content deals with the distribution or sale of goods, namely, garments and honey by women.

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Despite a wealth of new data and techniques like ancient DNA analysis, archaeologists still wrestle with why the once plentiful pig gradually became scarce long before religious taboos against pork were enacted. archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2025/letters-from/on-the-origin-of-the-pork-taboo/

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Canadian gymnast Ellie Black has no plans to retire, has sights set on 5th Olympics globalnews.ca/news/1108664...

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"the discovery of shackles...within Ghozza provides tangible evidence that some miners worked while chained...[Their] existence...matches the descriptions of...2nd-cent BCE Greek historian, who recounted how miners in Egypt were prisoners of war & ...criminals who worked...with their feet chained."

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"Scholars have long hypothesized that the lilies, when soaked in wine, release psychedelic properties" The first scholar to make this hypothesis was, IIRC, Dr. Ben Harer. /2

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Gustav Klimt, Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona (1897). Courtesy W&K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher. news.artnet.com/art-world/lo...

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