In 2014, a team of scientists in London carried out high-tech scanning on eight Egyptian mummies from the British Museum, uncovering fascinating information about them, including the revelation that one of the female mummies apparently has a tattoo symbolizing Archangel… Continue Reading
Today is Tax day in the United States, and people are scrambling to file their returns before the April 15 midnight deadline. While this is never fun, people can take solace in a new finding: A recently translated ancient Egyptian… Continue Reading
Ancient Egypt has made numerous contributions to human civilization, including the pyramids, the mummification process, the production of papyri, as well as art and architecture. Few, however, would ever guess that one of the modern world’s most recognizable heroes may… Continue Reading
The last line of a 17th century poem by John Donne prompted Louise Noble’s quest. “Women,” the line read, are not only “Sweetness and wit,” but “mummy, possessed.” Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her search for an explanation,… Continue Reading
More than 1.2 million rotations of the Earth on its axis since her death, Queen Hatepshut has not been eradicated from memory by her ancient successors. Far from it. Still today, nearly 3,500 years after she died, scholars are working… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! is happy to present it’s latest episode which you can download here: http://oto-usa.org/podcast/ Thelema NOW! Guest: Steve Vinson Professor Steve Vinson discusses the odd friendship between gruff but loveable Aleister Crowley and Egyptologist Battiscombe Gunn. Ancient Egypt was one area in… Continue Reading
360fied is new website that allows the web travel 360 degree access to ancient Egyptian sites. They only have 3 sites currently but promise to get all of them eventually. If you can’t afford to travel to Egypt, this is… Continue Reading
A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 90 — is set to be published. http://www.livescience.com/49489-oldest-known-gospel-mummy-mask.html… Continue Reading
A team of experts is beginning a scanning survey of the Bent Pyramid of ancient Egyptian King Snefru in Giza using scanning technology which uses non-invasive Muon particles. The scanners are being used to search for possible hidden chambers within… Continue Reading
This month, Chronicle Books published the 20 anniversary revised edition of The Book of Going Forth by Day aka the Papyrus of Ani, coordinated and overseen by noted occult author, James Wasserman. Like the original 1994 edition, a crucial difference… Continue Reading