Building stones and clay-rich Nile mud were ancient Egypt’s main raw construction materials. While the mud was easily accessible along the Nile river valley, the immense quantities of the different stone materials used for construction of the famous pyramids, precious temples and tombs needed a systematic quarrying organization, well arranged transport logistics over extreme distances and a hig...

Queen Nefertari, the favourite Royal Consort of Pharaoh Ramses II (Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty c. 1250 BC) is famous for her beautifully decorated tomb in the Valley of the Queens. Her burial was plundered in ancient times yet still many objects were found broken in the debris when the tomb was excavated. Amongst the found objects was a pair of mummified legs. They came to the Egyp...

The writer Elena Fortún (Madrid, 1886-1952) is famous for her paradigmatic fictional character children: the imaginative, frisky Celia. This article aims to analyze most alternative work of author, Oculto camino, published first time in 2016 after decades hidden a suitcase: author did not want have it while she was alive. It an autobiographical where uses painter María Luisa Arroyo talk about o...

Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) played a critical role in the development of psychoanalysis in France. Her clinical activity is not well known yet she was one of the first female French psychoanalysts. The journalist-writers Alice and Valerio Jahier were Bonaparte's first two patients. She conducted this dual analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein (1898-1976). Alice and Valerio exchanged analysts on sev...

Abstract The famous tomb of Petosiris (a high priest Thoth) in the Tuna al Gebel necropolis on outskirts Middle Egyptian town Hermopolis Magna is dated by last quarter 4th c. bc . pictorial program tomb, decorated with painted reliefs, has no known parallels Ptolemaic art. In terms iconography and style reliefs rely both Greek artistic traditions. This study attempts to trace elements so-called...

The famous Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz suffered a stroke at 65 years, which he called 'the adventure' or 'the accident'. He developed language disturbances suggesting crossed aphasia in a right hander with left hemiparesis. This uncommon pattern allowed him to continue to write his diary and to report his disturbances, with a unique depth and precision, especially for cognitive-emotion...