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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 646-658, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain information on the prevalence and manifestation of hallux valgus and associated foot pathology in ancient Egyptian mummies. Additionally, we investigated possible indicators of postmortem deformation of the feet during mummification. For this study, 34 mummies that had undergone whole body computed tomography (
Stephanie Panzer +7 more
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A Possible Solution to the Mystery of the ANITA Anomalous Events
Annalen der Physik, Volume 538, Issue 4, April 2026.In 2006 and 2014, the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), a balloon‐borne radio observatory flying over Antarctica, detected two strange upward‐going radio pulse events that have not yet been explained by our current understanding of physics.
Massimo Villata
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Animal Floral Bells from Ancient Egypt till The End of The Ptolemaic Period [PDF]
International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Managementamulets, animal bells, votive offerings, worshipers' guides during funerary rituals, and ornaments for priestly clothing. It has so many different shapes and functions through the different periods of Egypt. This study aims to highlight the animal floral
Gehad Ibrahim +1 more
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Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1540-1556, December 2025.Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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EGITO PTOLOMAICO E CULTURA MATERIAL: DECRETO DE RAPHIA E TEMPLO DE EDFU.
Tessituras: Revista de Antropologia e Arqueologia, 2015 This article aims to analyze the Ptolemaic Egypt’s material culture from two examples: the Raphia Decree and the Temple of Edfu. It is argued that the two artifacts can contradict the idea of a “Hellenized” Ptolemaic Egypt, very present in the ...
Thiago do Amaral Biazotto
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The Votive Gilded Statue CGC 38414: Intersecting Symbols of Divinity, Royalty, and Private Identity
Luxor International Journal of Archaeological StudiesThis study publishes and re-examines a seated, gilded limestone statue of Heret-menu-ankhwy (?) (CGC 38414), currently in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Measuring 27.5 cm in height, the piece preserves traces of gilding and pigments. Although the statue was
Eman Nousir
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“All flat maps, and I am one”: Cartographic References in the Poems of John Donne
Etudes Epistémè, 2006 Drawing both on the medieval Mappae mundi and the Ptolemaic tradition revived in the Renaissance, the recurrent cartographic motif in John Donne’s poetry well reflects the preoccupations of a revolutionary period in the history of Western cartography ...
Ladan Niayesh
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Heavy‐duty conceptual engineering
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 902-920, December 2025.Abstract Conceptual engineering is the process of assessing and improving our conceptual repertoire. Some authors have claimed that introducing or revising concepts through conceptual engineering can go as far as expanding the realm of thinkable thoughts and thus enable us to form beliefs, hypotheses, wishes, or desires that we are currently unable to ...
Steffen Koch, Jakob Ohlhorst
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Saqqara: seasons 2012 and 2013/2014/ Appendix: Conservation work in Saqqara (2012 and 2014) [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 After having finished the excavation in a zone located west of the Step Pyramid andspanning the area between the pyramid enclosure wall and the eastern border of the Dry Moat, thePolish–Egyptian mission started a new project aiming at a complex ...
Karol Myśliwiec +2 more
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