An obsession with what was being discovered about Pharaonic Egypt’s religion, monumental architecture, funerary practices and magick was endemic to British culture in the early 20th century and an obvious influence on the Prophet of the Lovely Star in embellishing… Continue Reading
Netflix recently released a new film Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, a documentary about recent discoveries at Saqqara, site of an ancient necropolis dating to Egypt’s Pharaonic period which boasts the Stepped Pyramid, Red Pyramid and Bent Pyramid – the… Continue Reading
In Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden explores the history of magic―an ancient and currently often overlooked aspect of human behavior and its present day resurgence. I learned about… Continue Reading
A trove of early Christian apocrypha have been translated and compiled by Tony Burke with the second volume New Testament Apocrypha More Noncanonical Scriptures having been recently published. LiveScience ran a story about this book and discusses some of the more interesting… Continue Reading
Thelemites, by and large, subscribe to the notion of “Scientific Illuminism” – so ya figure we’re all down with science per se. So… The Daily Mail ran a story on studying Mediaeval scat to determine how eating habits in the… Continue Reading
A number of outlets are reporting on the discovery of 13 wooden coffins at the famed necropolis of Saqqara – the site of some of the first monumental pyramids built by ancient Egyptians. This new find is of more recent… Continue Reading
The UK’s Daily Mail recently ran a piece which documents a text book case of bad archaeology – in this case in service of “proving” accounts in the New Testament. In this case, a University of Nebraska professor is claiming… Continue Reading
The UK’s Daily Mail reports on a new archaeological find in Japan, in the city of Osaka. The article begins: “Excavations at a construction site for a train station in Japan have revealed an burial ground containing the bones of 350 people… Continue Reading
England’s Independent recently ran a news story about archaeologists pinpointing the area that the stones the Neolithic ceremonial site came from. The story begins: “Archaeologists have solved one of Stonehenge’s greatest mysteries — the precise source of the world-famous prehistoric temple’s… Continue Reading
The New Yorker published an extensive piece (well, most of their pieces are extensive! that’s the format! their info delivery format is the opposite of memes and soundbytes) about the ongoing feud between the Maximalists and Minimalists in Biblical Archaeology.… Continue Reading