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☆ Barry Kemp, Who Unearthed Insights About Ancient Egypt, Dies at 84
  + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Clay Risen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Barry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking digging at the abandoned capital of a mysterious pharaoh helped revolutionize our understanding of how everyday ancient Egyptians lived, worked and worshiped, died on May 15 in Cambridge, Britain, one day after his 84th birthday. The death was announced by the Amarna Project, an archaeology nonprofit where Mr. Kemp was director. Almost from the moment he arrived to teach at Cambridge University in 1962, fresh out of college, Mr. Kemp was a phenomenon. Much of his work had little to do with the pharaohs, though. He was among the first to apply the questions of social history, in which scholars explore the lives of everyday people in the past, to ancient Egypt.
Persons: Barry Kemp, Kemp Organizations: Amarna, Cambridge University Locations: Cambridge, Britain, Egypt
☆ A tumor with teeth was found in the pelvis of an ancient Egyptian woman, along with a ring to protect her from pain
  + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A tumor with teeth was found in a 3,000-year-old ancient Egyptian burial site. AdvertisementAdvertisementA rare tumor with teeth has been found in the pelvis of ancient Egyptian woman who died more than 3,000 years ago. It is possible this teratoma was bothering the ancient Egyptian woman 3,000 years ago. A picture of a Bes ring, the type of which could be found during the New Kingdom. Some ancient Egyptian medicine was recorded in written literature, but that only tells us how the elite, who could have access to that kind of high-end treatment, dealt with disease.
Persons: —, Gretchen R, . Wetzel, Dabbs, Bes, Pharaoh Akhanathen's Organizations: Service, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, International, Heritage Art Locations: Amarna, Egypt, New Kingdom, Africa
☆ Put a Bird on It? Ancient Egypt Was Way Ahead of Us.
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Franz Lidz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A century ago, archaeologists excavated a 3,300-year-old Egyptian palace in Amarna, which was fleetingly the capital of Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Situated far from the crowded areas of Amarna, the North Palace offered a quiet retreat for the royal family. On the west wall of one extravagantly decorated chamber, today known as the Green Room, the excavators discovered a series of painted plaster panels showcased birds in a lush papyrus marsh. The artwork was so detailed and skillfully rendered that it was possible to pinpoint some of the bird species, including the pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) and the rock pigeon (Columba livia). Among the riddles they tried to solve was why two unidentified birds had triangular tail markings when no Egyptian bird known today has them.
Persons: Akhenaten, Columba livia, Chris Stimpson, Barry Kemp, Stimpson, Kemp, Nina de Garis Davies Organizations: Oxford University Museum of, University of Cambridge, Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: Egypt
☆ An engraving on an ancient ivory lice comb is the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
An engraving on an ancient lice comb is potentially the oldest known sentence written using an alphabet. The ivory comb bears a sentence in an early Canaanite script, estimated to date back almost 4,000 years. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyAn engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The Canaanite script is the earliest known alphabet, invented about 3,800 years ago. The comb inscription is direct evidence for the use of the alphabet in daily activities some 3,700 years ago.
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