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Mummy's curse
Cairo :: Egypt | 3 days ago
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Heart disease has generally been thought to be an affliction of modern civilization — fast food, salt, lack of exercise, smoking, stress. It turns out that the ancient Egyptians, at least those wealthy enough to have their corpses mummified, suffered...
Tags: Egypt, Cairo, Health Medical Pharma, Atherosclerosis, Mummy, Curse, Hospitality Recreation, Ancient Egypt
Iran's plan to ditch Tehran echoed in Ancient World
Alexandria :: Egypt | 5 days ago
Credibility Iran has taken a step closer to its goal of moving its capital away from Tehran to a new, as yet unbuilt location near the town of Qom...In Iran's case it claims that Tehran, a city of 12 million people, sits on 100 seismic fault lines and is therefore...
Tags: East Roman Empire, West Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, Egyptian Middle Kingdom, Lower Egypt, capitals city, Akhenaten, China, Tehran, Egypt, Alexandria, Ancient history, Amarna, Ancient Egypt, Constantinople, Capital, Atenism, Amarna Period
A new take on Tut: AGO's latest boy king exhibit much broader than one in '79
Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility King Tut is set to seduce the city again, and this time, he's sharing the stage with his parents and fellow pharaohs. Thirty years after the boy king's treasures sparked record attendance numbers at the Art Gallery of Ontario comes an almost entirely...
Tags: king tut, AGO, boy king, University of Toronto, Matthew Teitelbaum, Canada, Toronto, Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, The Egyptian, Ancient Egypt, Amarna Period, Atenism, Curses
Mummy, what are you doing here?
Melbourne :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility Paul Sumner with the prized Egyptian sarcophagus, along with other eclectic gems from the collection of the late Dr Harley Baxter. S an upstanding Egyptian antiquity like you doing in a place like this? For about a decade, unsuspecting visitors to the...
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Mummy, Sarcophagus, Ancient Egypt
King Tut's vital statistics
Ago :: Nigeria | 7 days ago
Credibility Age when Tutankhamun, circa 1332 BC, became pharaoh of Egypt...The maximum number of persons the AGO plans to admit every 30 minutes. The year the mummified remains of Tutankhamun were subjected to a CT scan overseen by Zahi Hawass and the National Geographic...
Tags: Tutankhamun, Nigeria, Ago, Zahi Hawass, Ay, BC, Ancient Egypt, Amarna Period, Atenism, Curses
Egyptian pharaohs were suffering from cardiovascular disorders
Washington-Atherosclerosis is not only a disease of modern society as the rich Egyptian of pharaonic times and suffered, as evidenced mummies studied with scanners, a study released yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ....
Tags: Cairo, Washington, Mummy, Atherosclerosis, Ancient Egypt, Pharaoh, Merneptah, Cardiology, Health Medical Pharma, Angiology, Gregory Thomas, Cardiovascular diseases, causes
Egyptian mummies show signs of heart disease
Çat :: Turkey | 10 days ago
Credibility The study, presented at the American Heart Assn. meeting in Orlando, Fla., was conceived by Dr. Gregory Thomas, a cardiologist at UC Irvine, after he read the plaque for Pharoah Merenptah in the Egyptian National Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. The plaque...
Tags: hearts disease, egyptians mummies, Cairo, ancients egyptians, ct scans, egyptians national, national museum, Turkey, Çat, Aging-associated diseases, Atherosclerosis, Myocardial infarction, Sclerosis, Artery, Cardiovascular diseases, Angiology, Cardiology, Health Medical Pharma, Mummies, Animal mummies, Mummy, Merneptah, Ahmose, Stroke, Ancient Egypt, Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, Human Interest, Arteriosclerosis, Egyptians, The Mummies, DB320
Ancient Egypt cures sore backs in Scotland
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
Credibility UK to deploy a modern twist on an old therapy to treat patients with chronic back pain, it emerged yesterday. The technique, known as intervertebral differential dynamics (IDD) therapy, is said to employ basic principles of traction that can be traced...
Tags: IDD, backs pain, ancient egypt, idd therapy, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Spinal decompression, Back pain, Physical therapy, Methadone, Pain, Symptoms, Nociception, Health Medical Pharma
Beer and the Origins of Society
Why did human beings those many thousands of years ago first settle down and grow crops? Seriously: why would you trade the light and efficient work of hunting and gathering for the back-breaking labour of growing crops? Anthropologists and historians...
Tags: beer, society, ancient Egypt, wine, Noah
'Temple singer' mummy in new exhibit at OIM
Luxor :: Egypt | 9 months ago
Credibility February 13, 2009 The life and mummy of an ancient Egyptian singer-priestess takes centerstage in a new exhibit underway at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago. "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt," running...
Tags: ancient egypt, meresamun
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