“Residues of vanilla attest to the great prestige of the wine and to the drinking habits of the elite residents of Jerusalem.” “Vanilla had to be imported from the tropic environments of India or east Africa,” they said.
“Control over the spice trade routes connecting east and west has often been seen as a prime motivator for the Assyrian expansion to the southwest.”
“The identification of vanilla as one such exotic and prestigious product having been brought over by the desert caravans highlights the economic value of this trade.””
A team of researchers working on the Warsaw Mummy Project studying the Egyptian “Mysterious Lady” mummy has determined how a fetus was preserved in her womb for more than 2,000 years. The team discovered the fetus last summer using a CT scanner and published their results in the Journal of Archaeological Science. In this new effort they uncovered the reasons for the survival of the fetus and have published a follow-up in the same journal.
During their study of the mummy last summer, the researchers found that not only was she pregnant at the time of her death, she was also a member of the Theban community. She had also been very carefully mummified and adorned with amulets. They also estimated her age at between 20 and 30 years old when she died, and the fetus was between 26 and 30 weeks along. The find remains the only case ever found of an embalmed pregnant mummy. Read more.
Heru-ur (Har-wer, Haroeris, Horus the Elder) was one of the oldest gods of Ancient Egypt. He was a sky god, whose face was visualised as the face of the sun.
Anubis and Horus. I might make this a mini print for the comic con I have coming up. I love Egypt so much I hope to visit the family I have in Cairo one day. ♥️
