THE principle of Yin and Yang is that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example, female-male, dark-light and old-young. The principle, dating from the 3rd century BCE or even earlier, is a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy and culture in general. The two opposites of Yin and Yang attract and complement each other and, as their symbol illustrates, each side has at its core an element of the other (represented by the small dots). Neither pole is superior to the other and, as an increase in one brings a corresponding decrease in the other, a correct balance between the two poles must be reached in order to achieve harmony.
The concept of Yin and Yang became popular with the work of the Chinese school of Yinyang which studied philosophy and cosmology in the 3rd century BCE. The principal proponent of the theory was the cosmologist Zou Yan (or Tsou Yen) who believed that life went through five phases (wuxing) - fire, water, metal, wood, earth - which continuously interchanged according to the principle of Yin and Yang.
Excavation work led by the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute team has unearthed a large urban villa dating back to the early New Kingdom, about 1500-1450 B.C.E. The findings at the site of Tell Edfu in southern Egypt include a large hall containing a rare and well-preserved example of a domestic shrine dedicated to family ancestors.
“It has been more than 80 years since such a shrine for the ancestors was discovered in Egypt, and the ones we did have were rarely within an undisturbed context,” said Nadine Moeller, associate professor of Egyptian archaeology at UChicago, who leads the Tell Edfu Project excavation with Oriental Institute research associate Gregory Marouard.
Located about 400 miles south of Cairo in the Nile Valley, the ancient city of Tell Edfu was a provincial capital occupied for nearly 3,000 years. The archaeological fieldwork has excavated settlement remains and monuments from Egypt’s Old Kingdom (ca. 2400 B.C.E.) Read more.
Sverd i fjell (Swords in Rock) is a commemorative monument for the historic Battle of Hafrsfjord that took place there in the year 872, when Harald Hårfagre (King Harald Fairhair) gathered all of Norway under one crown.
Hafrsfjord, Norway
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires will be released on Blu-ray on April 9 via Scream Factory. Extras are in progress, but the company confirms it will include both the uncut UK version and the US edit (titled The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula).
The 1974 martial arts/horror mash-up is the ninth and final entry in Hammer Films’s Dracula series. Roy Ward Baker (Scars of Dracula, Asylum) directs, with uncredited work by Cheh Chang (The One-Armed Swordsman).
John Forbes-Robertson plays Dracula, with David de Keyser providing the voice. Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Robin Stewart, and Julie Ege also star.
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