Tag: Egypt
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Field Day Part 3: The Carnegie Museums and the Pleasures of Small-Scale Egyptology
Okay, everyone, we’ve (finally, for some of you) reached the last of week of my self-guided tour of the Carnegie Museums. This week, I want to walk through the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s (CMNH) Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt. As I alluded to last week, as a science, Egyptology’s roots are deep in colonialism and…
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Beer Here! : Potent Potables of the Ancient World
Candy/ is dandy/ But liquor/ is quicker — Ogden Nash Over some lovely late-spring cocktails with my parents this past weekend, I asked my mother what I should talk about here this week, and she pointed out I haven’t talked about consumables yet. Ancient food and drink covers a lot of ground, so I thought…
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Physician, Heal Thyself: Medicine in the Ancient World
“I’m not dead!” — Old peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail Howdy, folks, I know we took last week off, but it is was mainly because I had to use my blog-research-time to road trip to my Covid vaccine appointment (finally— I live in Pennsylvania, where we’re just now thinking about leaving Phase 1a).…
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Animal House: Pets of the Ancient World
“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together…mass hysteria!” – Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters I thought this week we’d talk about something relatable, especially in a pandemic world where we’ve still barely left the house: our non-human cohabiting partners. As long as people have been able to convince animals to let us touch them, we’ve had…
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Sacred Sorcery: Magic in Egyptian Life (and Death)
…The sky encloses the stars, magic encloses its settlements, and my mouth encloses the magic which is in it… – The Book of Going Forth by Day, spell 31 The past couple of weeks I’ve devoted to the physical world, which I know can be a little dry, so I thought this entry I’d devote…
Sarah Holz 