#archaeology of the dead

[loneviatoris]

Academic Failure

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[holycosmolo9y]

Head of a funerary couch, in the shape of Ammit 😛

Ammit is a celestial beast who bestows final judgement on the deceased and devours the unjust in the court of Osiris.

Populalrly depicted in funerary texts like the Book of the Dead, Ammit is usually a combination of a crocodile's head, the front legs of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.

Found among three ritual funerary couches in Tutankhamun's antechamber and made of stuccoed gilded wood with each animal's eyes inlaid with colored glass paste, this particular couch is variedly composed of a curiously different configuration: a hippopotamus' head wearing a wig, a leopard's body, and a crocodile's tail and crest

[egypt-ancient-and-modern]

Hathor in bovine form in a copy of the Book of the dead, emerging from a hill representing the Theban necropolis.

[expressions-of-nature]

Dargavs, Russia by Rogov

The village of Dargavs, or the City of the Dead, has an ancient cemetery where people that lived in the valley buried their loved ones along with their clothes and belongings. The valley stretches for 17 kilometers, and the cemetery contains almost 100 ancient stone crypts.

[nyxshadowhawk]

I need a Lovecraftian-style story in which an explorer finds an ancient inscription on a stone monolith, written in a forgotten language, in the antediluvian ruins of a lost city of which only legends formerly spoke.

And then someone translates it, and it turns out to be some king’s plans for an irrigation system.

[archaeologicalnews]

52-foot-long Book of the Dead papyrus from ancient Egypt discovered at Saqqara

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb south of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

There are many texts from The Book of the Dead, and analysis of the new finding may shed light on ancient Egyptian funerary traditions. Conservation work is already complete, and the papyrus is being translated into Arabic, according to a translated statement, which was released in conjunction with an event marking Egyptian Archaeologists Day on Jan. 14.

This is the first full papyrus to be uncovered at Saqqara in more than 100 years, Mostafa Waziry, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said, according to the statement. Read more.

[mudwerks]

(via Homo naledi were burying their dead at least 100,000 years before humans | Ars Technica)

Now the same expedition team has announced the discovery of H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional burials. This predates the earliest known burials by Homo sapiens by at least 100,000 years, suggesting that brain size might not be the definitive factor behind such complex behavior. The team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing...

"I think we are facing a remarkable discovery here of hominids with brains a third the size of living humans, and slightly larger than chimpanzees, burying their dead—something previously only found in large-brained hominids—as well as etching meaning-making symbols on the wall," said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer in Residence who leads the Rising Star Project. "This would mean not only are humans not unique in the development of symbolic practices, but [they] may not even have invented such behaviors."

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔙𝔞𝔩𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔬, 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔢𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔰 𝔞𝔱 𝔞 𝔱𝔬𝔪𝔟 𝔦𝔫 𝔖𝔞𝔫 𝔊𝔦𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔬 𝔫𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔞, ℑ𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔶

[metis-metis]

I am begging academics to realise that ancient people had emotions too.

[loneviatoris]

From another era, I will return

- loneviatoris

[mecheyethe3rd]

魔女狩 - 白河子

Artists Pixiv is inundated with NSFW images

[diaryofcursedroses]

What if stars are nothing but homes to souls, places from where we all descend to our transient abode? You and I, are from the same home, for I find the indistinguishable gleam entangled in both our souls. oh, remember the day we met and my soul confessed to yours? after an ocean of eternity, it'd again felt like home. perhaps, the memories of us dancing in stardust had lingered on for too long. now, the windows to the universe where I belong- Your eyes, my Lord, is the only place I want to live for. for the world has always been a sadistic place, and we? intertwining souls.

Insta @diaryofcursedroses

[merelygifted]

Ancient Egyptian cemetery holds rare 'Book of the Dead' papyrus and mummies | Live Science

[nadziejaestel]

Archaeological exhibition "The gold of the ancient steppes" in "Hermitage Siberia"

@nadziejaestel

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Dear early archaeologists,

Repeat after me…

“I - archaeologist, do hereby promise to take note of where I found me shiny thing

Not just of how shiny it was.”

Thank you.

[coochiequeens]

No one tell these people that Viking men combed their hair and ironed their clothes and Viking women also joined their battles. Or else we will be seeing articles like “Which Vikings character was TQ+ in real life?”

https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/world/article275917576.html

Ok I hate to be one of those people who thinks they know better that people trained in the field but 🤦🏼‍♀️. Have these people every read Vicky Leon’s Uppity Women series? In her Uppity Women of Medieval Times she explains how after the plague a good number of blacksmiths were women. It wasn’t because they were non-binary or TQ+. It was because they were their brothers died and the fathers needed someone to help out with the family business since most professions were passed down within families.

Did they look at the remains of the men with hair decorations versus the remains of men without extras? My amateur guess would be that the men with hair decoration would show signs of being better feed throughout their lives. And that the hair decoration on men is a sign of higher social statues, which would bring more food, not gender identity. As for the woman buried with blades , a boar tusk and a fishing hook is it possible the blades were simple tools for ordinary household chores? Maybe the tusk is also a status symbol? Or that she didn’t got out and hunt it but killed one in self defense or in defense of her home and crops? That the fish hook is because she would supplement the family diet with fresh protein by visiting a local stream or pond? Not because she was some transmasc sportswoman but because back then everyone was involved in food production.