egyptology

HI i am looking for help for my sister. she is working on her Masterwork in Arthistory or so. Her focus is Childmummy Portraits. and she would be interested in people knowing alot about it or people knowing the Egyptian time under the Roman empire. would anyone be intersted in exchanging with...

I know there are lots of fans of Egyptology on the forum, and the threads about Egypt and pyramids always generate lots of responses, so perhaps it's about time we had a general discussion thread, especially since there are new discoveries being announced quite regularly. To get us started...

OK, here is an interesting one. A number of the webpages alleging links between Horus and Christianity cite often lengthy passages from a text supposedly called the Book of Vivifying the Soul Forever. (odd title to start with.) I can find no trace of this book, and note a lot of people suspect...

I am new here. I came to this board after having a idiot series of arguments on youtube. The thing that I am asking is that do any other atheists feel weird that a movie like Zeitgeist, being so devoid of historical context, has lead us to a point in which we find ourselves sticking up for...

I see some atheists circulating this video around. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8461754114455236037&q Part 2 I'm not interested in. Part 2 is more 9-11 conspiracy stuff which is already being taken care of in other topics. Part 3 demonizes the Federal Reserve Bank. So we could...

Why the qualifier "ancient"? You would not gain much mathematical knowledge even from today's artwork. Artists do not write poetry about mathematics, graphic artists and sculptors do not in general create etudes on specific subjects from mathematics. Some 'insight', sure, portrayals of...

So do I. Let's keep an eye out for that one.

With all the supernatural and paranormal stuff trafficking through the room, I'm surprised that I haven't seen any Egyptology woo for a long time. There is apparently some new work about to be done in an area of research in the Pyramid of Cheops that I've found fascinating for years ... two...

(I'm not sure whether this is properly Science or History, so if a moderator happens to read this and finds it's in the wrong place, please move it accordingly!) I have a guy at work who has a vague recollection of seeing a documentary on Egypt's pyramids where the guy giving the documentary...