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☆ Mummified animals Napoleon's scientists brought back from Egypt sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution
  + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte brought a slew of savants — geologists, engineers, and other scientists — on his unsuccessful attempt to take over Egypt. A collection of mummified animals that the scholars brought back from Egypt seemed to hold the key to the question of species transformation. Naturalists Cuvier and Lamarck had first sparred three decades earlier when a mummified ibis arrived at the museum. The skeleton of a mummified ibis (middle) that Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire brought back from Egypt, along with a cat and a hawk. "I have shown that it is at the present time precisely as it was in the time of the Pharaohs ," he later wrote of the mummified ibis.
Persons: Darwin, —, Napoleon Bonaparte, Naturalists Georges Cuvier, Jean, Baptiste Lamarck, Cuvier, Lamarck, transformism, Naturalists Cuvier, Lamarck’s, Charles Darwin, Marie Jules Cesar Savigny, ” Cuvier, Geoffroy, savants, Etienne Geoffroy Saint, Hilaire, lungfish, Geoffroy Saint, Jenny McGrath, “, Charles Darwin’s “ Organizations: Service, Naturalists, French Museum of, French Academy of Sciences, Getty Locations: transformism, Egypt
☆ A mysterious 4,000-year-old slab may be a treasure map that could point the way to long-lost Bronze Age riches
  + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Scientists found it was a gigantic map, likely used by a Bronze Age prince to rule the area. AdvertisementAdvertisementMysterious engravings on an ancient stone slab, long relegated to the storage area of an ancient castle, might reveal the locations of long-lost Bronze Age treasure. The scientists are now hoping to uncover the last secrets of the map to find new Bronze Age archaeological sites. The map was likely used by a despotic Bronze Age rulerThe map could point the way to a burial mound of a prince, per a post from the National Archaeology Museum. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt's likely that it was once used by a prince from the early Bronze Age who would have directed a small military faction to forcibly rule the area.
Persons: —, Yvan Pailler, Paul du Châtellier, It's, Pailler, Clément Nicolas, Nicolas Organizations: Service, University of Western, Agence France Presse, Science Alert, French Museum of National Archaeology, AFP, Bournemouth University, National Archaeology Museum Locations: University of Western Brittany, AFP, Brittany, France, Europe
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