Coronavirus: US becomes first country to record 2,000 coronavirus deaths in one day
More than 2,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus died across the US on Friday – the highest number of fatalities seen in a single day anywhere in the world. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US has now exceeded 500,000. However, there are signs that Americans are increasingly […]
COVID-19 revives grim history of medical experimentation in Africa
The mad rush by scientists and researchers to test potential treatments for COVID-19 in scientific trials has revived a heated debate over the use of humans in critical drug trials in Africa. On April 1, two French researchers, Dr. Jean-Paul Mira, and Camille Locht, suggested on a live television broadcast that trials of a potential vaccine should […]
Tools Used in the Paleolithic Age
The Paleolithic Age is marked by the evolution of tools. The Paleolithic Age is a period marked by the evolution of human tools. Beginning approximately 2.5 million years ago and ending roughly 12,000 years ago, the Paleolithic Age saw human technology evolve quickly, leading to the use of tools. The tools developed by the ancient […]
Prehistoric Egyptians mummified bodies 1,500 years before the pharaohs
Last month, my colleagues and I published our analysis of an intact Egyptian prehistoric body, dating from around 3,700 to 3,500 BC, that had been housed in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin, Italy, since 1901. The results provide strong evidence that Egyptian mummification techniques — long associated with the time of the pharaohs — date back to […]
Mummification Procedures
Our information as to the procedure followed by the Egyptians in mummifying the dead comes mainly from the Greek historians Herodotus (fifth century BC) and Diodorus (first century BC), as well as from a few documents dating from the later periods of Egyptian civilization. All these accounts seem to be in general agreement with the examinations carried out upon […]
Decline of Mummification
After its ‘golden age’ during the Twenty-first Dynasty and shortly after, the standard and quality of mummification steadily and gradually declined. However, the practice did not completely disappear until Muslim Arabs conquered Egypt in AD 641. Mummification Elsewhere It seems as though mankind has a subconscious need or desire to preserve the bodies of dead […]
Egyptian Mummies
The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification. Using special processes, the Egyptians removed all moisture from the body, leaving only a dried form that would not easily decay. It was important in their religion to preserve the dead body in as life-like a manner as […]
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Religion influenced nearly every aspect of the ancient Egyptians’ lives. As it was very important to them, they were bound by tradition and unwilling to change. The history of ancient Egyptian religion is rooted in Egypt’s prehistory and it lasted for 3,000 years. With the exception of the Amarna Period (when King Akhenaten practiced monotheism), […]
Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of spells which enable the soul of the deceased to navigate the afterlife. The famous title was given the work by western scholars; the actual title would translate as The Book of Coming Forth by Day or Spells for Going Forth by Day and a more apt translation to English would be The Egyptian Book […]
Art of Dynastic Egypt
The Naqada III period, from about 3200 to 3000 BC,[8] is generally taken to be identical with the Protodynastic period, during which Egypt was unified Naqada III is notable for being the first era with hieroglyphs (though this is disputed by some), the first regular use of serekhs, the first irrigation, and the first appearance of royal cemeteries.[19] The art of […]
