Ancient Egyptian ‘head cone mystery’ solved by archaeologists
Ancient Egyptian art is filled with images of reverent revelers with pointy cones on their heads. Men and women are shown with head cones in artistic depictions on everything from papyrus scrolls to coffins, donning the pointed objects as they take part in royal feasts and divine rituals. Women who wear the cones are sometimes also portrayed in childbirth, an activity associated with certain gods.
But while the head cones were relatively common in Egyptian art for more than a thousand years, their purpose and existence has remained a mystery. No archaeologist had ever excavated one of the enigmatic objects, leading some scholars to think of Egyptian head cones as merely symbolic representations—the equivalent of the halos that appear on saints and angels in Christian iconography.
Now it appears that an international team of archaeologists have indeed found the first physical evidence for the elusive head accessories, according to a new paper published in the journal Antiquity. Read more.
It wasn’t a mystery! It’s not fucking solved either!
Doesn’t anyone learn???
We’ve pretty much known they did this for decades. We’ve had strong, yet incomplete, evidence that they put them on their heads and melted them for decades. The only thing this find gives us is material evidence of the candles on the head of someone, which finally proves that yes they definitely did wear them on the head (there was debate as to whether it actually happened or whether it was just a thing that didn’t happen but was portrayed in tomb scenes) and what they were made of (we finally proved they were perfumed).
No one, I repeat, no one, has ever described candles on the head of a party goer as a “halo”. This is what you get when someone writes an article (not OP who is merely reporting the content of the article) doesn’t understand the difference between the sun disk seen behind the heads of certain deities in Egyptian religion, and a fucking perfumed candle worn at parties.
that thing looks ridiculous. Why not just put it in the cabinet above the sink??
Every single finnish person is laughing at you peasants
its a dish drying set up?? im not about to put wet dishes in the cupboard? who does that?
hi
welcome to finland, this exists in every single household in finland
the water is still gonna drip into the bottom of the cabinet??? or onto the dishes below? i would rather let my dishes dry on the counter/above the sink for sure. also i moved to europe this year and lemme tell you i prefer a stack of plates over this vertical bookshelf style arrangement any day, it is annoying as fuck
Did you not notice that there is no bottom shelf? Also it is above the sink so the water won’t drip all over your counter. And I would take water dripping on already wet dishes over them covering all on my counters any day.
It is the exact same thing as the pic in the original post but hidden in a cabinet! :D But whatever question it all you want
For the study, Cantor and colleagues cruised around the coastal lagoons of southern Brazil, taking photos of the dolphins they encountered to identify individuals. They amassed hundreds of records detailing which dolphins were fraternizing, and what they were doing together. They also used a harmless technique to collect genetic samples, which determined how and if the animals were related. The results, published April 9 in the journal Biology Letters, revealed that the helper dolphins actively choose to spend time with one another. Whether individuals are related or members of the same age group or sex is less important; the strongest social ties form among dolphins with the same fishing technique. “They prefer to be with each other, and not just when they’re cooperating with fishermen,” says Cantor, who is a National Geographic Explorer.
Janet Mann, a dolphin expert at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the new research, believes it reveals a cultural phenomenon.Though the definition of culture is debated, Mann says “anthropologists and psychologists agree on two basic criteria: that the behavior is socially learned, and that the behavior differentiates between groups.”
