Notice how they never tell him to hold still? Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets. The mummy of Ankhekhonsu,… Continue Reading
It sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke: the day that the Pope met Spiderman! You heard it first on 0=2!! https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/far-home-spiderman-drops-papal-audience-2021-06-23/
Archaeologists searching for a royal palace in Germany have discovered a 1,000-year-old church constructed for Otto the Great (also called Otto I). Otto I, who lived from A.D. 912 to 973, consolidated and expanded the Holy Roman Empire. The empire,… Continue Reading
This will be extra charming to Robert Anton Wilson fans (look for the instance of “Markov Chain”). Additionally, you can’t NOT like this because of what the judges at the Sci-Fi London contest said: ” I’ll give them (the developers… Continue Reading
“All exterior surfaces of the [jar] were originally covered with text; it once carried over 55 inscribed names, dozens of which now survive only as scattered, floating letters or faint stylus strokes” Lamont wrote, noting that the Greek writing contains… Continue Reading
The late scholar John Chadwick first came up with the idea to update HG Liddell and Robert Scott’s 1889 dictionary, the Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, in 1997. An abridged version of a lexicon published in 1843, the Liddell and Scott had… Continue Reading