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Death is Not the End: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art

Death is Not the End: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Art INTRODUCTION Imagine that we have gone back thousands of years. Imagine a land with pyramids hundreds of feet high and a river that floods every year, the birth of an agricultural society. Imagine tens of thousands of people, wearing nothing but loincloths, lugging limestone after limestone through the desert. We are in ancient Egypt, a pl...

The Role of Myth in Art During the Millennia: A critique of Nature in Ancient Art, Marzieh Torajie

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Egyptian Blue And/or Atacamite in an Ancient Egyptian Coffin

This work deals with the composition of the blue and green pigments used in the wooden sarcophagus studied by Abdelaal et al. and published in 2014 in this journal. From the published data, a degradation of the originally used Egyptian blue pigment is proposed. The presence of chlorine in the pigment deduced from SEM-EDS analyses and the greenish hue observed point to the formation of a certain...

Ancient Egyptian herbal wines.

Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed into pottery jars from the beginning of advanced ancient Egyptian culture, ca. 3150 B.C., and continuing for millennia have revealed that a range of natural products--specifically, herbs and tree resins--were dispensed by grape wine. These findings provide chemical evidence for ancient Egyptian organic medicinal remedies, previously only ambiguousl...