According to On This Day, the British Museum opened to visitors today in 1759: “But not just any visitors. Fearing damage to the collections by unruly hordes, the trustees decided that nobody would be admitted without a ticket. The problem… Continue Reading
Both theoreticians and practitioners of the the theurgy referred to as “Energized Enthusiasm” might find it worthwhile to spend some time at the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Sights And Sounds of Ancient Ritual” exhibit.In Liber DCCXI Energized Enthusiasm A Note… Continue Reading
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, also known as the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, is home to more than 120,000 pieces of ancient Egypt including the Funeral Stela of Ankh f n Khonsu. This particular was originally part of the collection… Continue Reading
LiveScience.com posted a news story about a “love spell” inscribed in Coptic on papyrus dating to Late Antiquity, currently in the collection of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. While researchers are still debating the purpose of the spell, all agree… Continue Reading
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The Daily Mail has hopped onto a story about research being done on what electromagnetic properties Khufu’s pyramid at Giza might have. As it is built of limestone the fact that it has any would seem somewhat far fetched and… Continue Reading
England’s Daily Mail reports on new archaeological finds in Alexandria, Egypt. Their report begins: “A mysterious ten foot (three-metre) long black sarcophagus has been opened in Alexandria, found on the northern coast of Egypt and founded by the legendary leader of… Continue Reading
Can a film be consciously fashioned as a talisman? I dunno, ask Kenny Anglemyer, or mebbe Harry Everett Smith? Methinks it’s down to intent — as well as knowledge and skill. And where would one find such cine-amulets? Well, of… Continue Reading
Ya know, when yr the adherent of a religious creed that expresses shades of deity with the archetypes of the ancient Gods and Goddesses of Khem, the Black Land, new discoveries in Egyptian archaeology tend to be of interest —… Continue Reading
Profane Egyptologists is a new book by Paul Harrison published by Routledge detailing the modern practice of Kemetic i.e. ancient Egyptian (“Egypt” is actually the Greek term for what the natives referred to as “Khem”). The publisher’s site says: “It… Continue Reading