Mural depicts the queen Nefertari Meritmut before the god Anubis, detail of a wall painting in the Tomb of Nefertari (QV66). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC. Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.
So that thing the Right have been accusing the Left of doing for years turns out to be something they themselves are doing?
Colour me shocked.
“The one thing that rich people forever lust for is authenticity,
that elusive quality that tends to disappear the more that your
influence is bought rather than organically developed. (A huge portion
of the public relations industry exists to sell rich people the illusion
of authenticity, with the assumption that the rich are too insulated
from reality to realize that they are being ripped off.) Nothing is
perceived as more authentic than real live chanting, sign-waving
demonstrators.”
Ancient Egypt’s Ibis Mummies Were Probably Not Raised in Giant Sacred Ranches
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PANTHEON ABOUNDS with animal-headed gods—Sekhmet (lion), Horus (hawk), Thoth (ibis), and others—and accordingly there are lion, hawk, and ibis mummies. These preserved animals have turned up everywhere from pharaoh’s tombs to city necropolises. Ibises in particular have been found by the millions, but archaeologists have not had concrete evidence of how the birds were acquired to be sacrificed by priests, who then mummified and sold them as devotional offerings. Were they domesticated and raised on an industrial scale or captured from the wild? Now, research published in the journal PLOS One suggests the latter was more likely.
“To investigate the possibility of domestication, we used ancient DNA stored in the ancient Egyptian ibis mummies to tell about how the priests ran their business,” says Sally Wasef, a paleogeneticist at Griffith University in Australia and lead author of the study. “We analyzed and compared the mitogenomic diversity among these mummies to that found among modern sacred ibis populations from throughout Africa.” Read more.
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