#Skeleton found in pot is first #AncientEgyptian to undergo whole #genome analysis
Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped #DNA survive past four millennia

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/02/skeleton-in-pot-first-ancient-egyptian-undergo-genome-analysis #science #ancientDNA #archaeology

2,200-year-old Egyptian hallucinogenic rituals confirmed by vase depicting dwarf god

https://archaeologymag.com/2024/11/2200-year-old-egyptian-hallucinogenic-rituals/

I am still cry-laughing at this screenshot of my medical clinic's portal, they are REALLY dedicated to accessibility

Some of the #roman #sculpture, as well as an #ancient Egyptian stele, dotted around the grounds of the #renaissance palazzo Barberini in #rome. #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientegyptian #ancientart #romanhistory #ancientrome

Another neat paper combining someone's love of astronomy and archeology Keep sharing the passionate fires that drive you

> Nut is the goddess of the sky, who is often depicted as a star-studded woman arched over her brother, the Earth god Geb. She protects the Earth from being flooded by the encroaching waters of the void, and plays a key role in the solar cycle, swallowing the sun as it sets at dusk and giving birth to it once more as it rises at dawn.

The hidden role of the #MilkyWay in #ancientEgyptian #mythology
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hidden-role-milky-ancient-egyptian.html

It's the #DayOfHermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Anubis is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide of souls in #ancientEgyptian religion. He is commonly depicted with the head of a jackal as jackals had been strongly associated with cemeteries. The Greeks associated him with #Hermes because they both guided souls to the afterlife, resulting in the syncretic god #Hermanubis.

It's the #DayOfAres / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Sekhmet is a warrior goddess of #ancientEgyptian religion. She is said to breathe fire and cause plagues. She acts as the vengeful manifestation of Ra's power, the Eye of #Ra. Once he sent her to destroy mortals but in her bloodlust she would have wiped out humanity had the other gods not dyed beer red as blood so Sekhmet lapped it all up and passed out drunk.
#mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology!

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I'm introducing African deities in my daily god toots. #Osiris is the god of fertlity and agriculture, life, vegetation, and afterlife in #ancientEgyptian religion. He is a god who died at the hand of his brother Seth. The festival commemorating his death marked the day of new crops being planted. The Egyptians made "grain mummies" of Osiris, filled with soil and sown with seed, symbolising Osiris rising from the dead.

Deir el-Bahri was used as a place to bury the elite of Ancient Egyptian society for millennia, most famously in association with the temples of Montuhotep II and Hatshepsut but the burials continued long after this. And any given tomb might be used long after it was first dug.

These pottery fragments (ostraca) illustrate both those points: they were found in the courtyard outside tomb TT312 which was built for Nespekashuty who was a Vizier during the reign of Psamtik I in the 26th Dynasty, but two of the ostraca are from a later date than that.

The two drawings of column tops are probably contemporary to the tomb’s construction and may even be preliminary sketches for the decoration. At the back is an incised design of a crocodile which is probably from a couple of hundred years later during the Ptolemaic Period. 1/2

The programme for this year’s #SummerSchool in #Languages & #Linguistics (July 10–21, hybrid online/in Leiden) has been published! Specials this year include the minor Anatolian languages, #AncientEgyptian for linguists, Central Atlas #Tamazight and Comparative #Afroasiatic (w/ @PhDniX), #Romani, and the indigenous languages of North America https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/summer-schools/summer-school-in-languages-and-linguistics #LeidenUniversity

This is a relatively unusual object – it’s a human shaped granite sarcophagus, which is not unusual in itself but it belonged to a private individual who lived during the New Kingdom and at that period it was generally only royalty who got stone sarcophagi. 1/5