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Blessing a Baby Against Every Illness
*Guest post by Agnes Miháhlykó; read her bio here. Christians of Egypt received blessing from the church in many forms: as prayers of inclination at the end of the Eucharist, when the celebrant ble…
Police Brutality in Ptolemaic Egypt
On 14 September 194 BCE, the chief of police of the Polemon district and several other men raided the workshop of Petermouthis son of Peteësis. Forcibly removing him from his workshop, they dragged…
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Chief of police ? WTF ? They only had Palace Guards at the time.
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Dunno where you got that from lol but no they didn't. Read it you'll learn something!
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Or translate it yourself. The text is right there, this is the difference between 'learning' shit from Jewtube and an actual education.
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Chief of Police = Head of the Palace Guards. There i fixed it. Remember Zachariah Sitchin who allegedly was one of a hand full that could read that sumerian script ? Turns out there are at least hundred people in the world that can read it and the are at least 5 quite different interpretations of th... View More
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That's not Sumerian, it's Coptic you fucking retard lol
Sitchin was a complete and utter fraud. Any undergrad can read and write Sumerian.
And there were police.
How is it 'head of palace guard', you know it's talking about a small village in PTOLEMAIC EGYPT? Do you even know what that means?
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Sitchin was a complete and utter fraud. Any undergrad can read and write Sumerian.
And there were police.
How is it 'head of palace guard', you know it's talking about a small village in PTOLEMAIC EGYPT? Do you even know what that means?
Have you ... View More
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Yippi i got to use the disagree button. 
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Deep Purple: dyeing Egyptian textiles
*Guest post by Daniel Soliman; read his bio here. The oldest preserved textiles from Egypt, woven in linen, date back to around 2900 BCE. Because it is difficult to dye linen, the Egyptians preferr…
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Caring for Cows in Ancient Egypt
Tomb scenes and models show how important cattle were in ancient Egypt. From birthing to butchery, we see the experiences and uses of cattle. Not only did they provide food (for the living and the …
A Brief Account of Marriage
Marriage in Egyptian villages was a pretty informal affair. Few legal documents were written concerning marriage, and few texts discuss particulars – unless something goes wrong. The most important…
Kittens for Bastet
*Co-written with Luigi Prada; read his bio here. On 20th April, either 202 or 178 BCE, an embalmer named Onnophris wrote to Machatas, an official (epistates) in the village of Tanis in the Fayum se…
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Facing the Dead? Framing Mummy Panels from Hawara
*Guest post by Campbell Price; see his bio here. Among the most popular objects in many museum archaeology displays, the lifelike mummy panel portraits from Graeco-Roman Egypt hold a special place …
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The Spanish Flu: Testimonies from a 1918 diary
The Spanish Flu
This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the World War I armistice. While many will remember this year as the end of the First World War,...
"Dear brother, please write me how you are, as I heard there is an outbreak in your area, write and make me feel more cheerful about you"
1,800 years old.
British Library Medieval Papyrus 2479
1,800 years old.
British Library Medieval Papyrus 2479
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Law and the Art of Bookroll Maintenance
*Guest post by Mark De Kreij; see his bio here In 133 CE Herakleides-Valerius, inhabitant of Antinoupolis, which had only recently been founded, put his signature to a brief document renouncing his…
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