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The ancient egyptian roots of the image of the panther in the alexandrian Physiologus [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2019
The purpose of this study is to trace the Old Egyptian roots of the Panther’s figure, symbolising the Saviour in the zoological mystery play Physiologus created in Egyptian Alexandria. Taking into account the opinion expressed in the literature about the
Eleonora Kormysheva
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THE CONSERVATION OF TUTANKHAMUN’S LEATHER SCALE ARMOUR [PDF]

Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists
تحديد وكشف لطرق صناعة درع توت عنخ آمون ذو القشور الجلدية بمساعدة عمليات الترميم [AR] يتناول هذا البحث ويكشف عن تقنيات صناعة الدرع الجلدي ذو القشور الخاص بتوت عنخ آمون.
Safwat Mohamed, Rasha Metawi, Ahmed alshoky, Hussein kamal   +3 more
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Similar or Different? Configurations of Authenticity Across Museum Types

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Authenticity is traditionally regarded as playing a crucial role in museums, science centers, and memorials. However, despite this fact, authenticity has very different meanings in different (institutional) settings. This complicates shared communications across museum practices.
S. Schwan, S. Bahnsen, C. Eschenfelder, B. Garsoffky, P. Gerjets, M. Gorman, C. Hampp, L. Kampschulte, O. Köller, C. Kuchler, A. M. Land‐Zandstra, S. Moser, T. Moussouri, P. Pierroux, C. Sichau, I. Specht, M. Storksdieck, M. Xanthoudaki, D. Lewalter   +18 more
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Phenolic Compounds from the Fruits of , a Food and Medicinal Plant of Ancient Egypt

Natural Product Communications, 2016
Medemia argun is a mysterious and little known monotypic fan palm from the Nubian Desert Oases of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Its fruits have been found in the tombs from the 5th Dynasty (ca.
Milena Masullo, Arafa I. Hamed, Usama A. Mahalel, Cosimo Pizza, Sonia Piacente   +4 more
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Hallux Valgus and Associated Foot Pathology in Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Computed Tomography Study

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, Peter Augat, Klaus Hergan, Alice Paladin, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Randall C. Thompson, Albert R. Zink   +7 more
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The Discovery of the Hippocampal Place Cells

Hippocampus, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the events leading up to the discovery of the place cells in 1971 for which the author received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2014, together with May‐Britt and Edvard Moser. In addition, it explores some of the ideas and influences that contributed to the interpretation of that finding as evidence for the ...
John O'Keefe
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Trajectories of adoption for silver and bloomery iron in China from the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770–476 BC)

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1267-1282, October 2025.
Abstract We examine the number of sites with silver objects in China over a period of 3500 years to suggest that technologies that stimulated the indigenous exploitation of silver‐bearing ores were innovated during the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770–476 BCE), and that increased centralisation and bureaucratisation from the Warring States period (475 ...
Jonathan R. Wood, Yaxiong Liu
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Artistic Characteristics of the Throne Chairs of King Tutankhamun and King Farouk I: A Study of Heritage and Legacy [PDF]

Journal of Tourism, Hotels and Heritage
This study seeks to analyze the artistic features and symbolic meanings of the thrones of King Tutankhamun and King Farouk, as two models reflecting the evolution of the concept of royal authority in Egypt across two widely separated historical periods ...
Hany Roshdy, Eslam Salem, Yasmin Wasfy, Michael Makram   +3 more
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STADTMITTE UMSTEIGEN? HEINZ KNOBLOCH AND THE ‘ARCHAEOLOGICAL’ TRACES OF BERLIN'S GHOST STATIONS

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 527-543, October 2025.
ABSTRACT In 1982, the East German journalist Heinz Knobloch published a volume entitled Stadtmitte umsteigen. Its title was provocative: since the construction of the Berlin Wall, it had not been possible to change trains at Stadtmitte in East Berlin, as one of the two lines functioned only as a transit route between the north and south of West Berlin.
Laura Bradley
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A Multi Analytical Investigation of the Original Materials and Previous Conservation Interventions Used in Tutankhamun’s Painted Wooden Bed

Open Archaeology
The bed under study originates from the New Kingdom’s 18th Dynasty, attributed to King Tutankhamun’s reign (1336–1327 B.C.). Among the artifacts discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb, six daily beds were unearthed, with two located in the antechamber and the ...
Moustafa Mohamed, Sultan Gilan M., Abdrabou Ahmed, Fawzy Samar, Mohamed Hassan, Kamal Hussein M.   +5 more
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