Category: Egypt
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Cruising the Nile Aboard the Viking Aton
[ad_1] The line’s newest Nile cruise ship is the third in their industry-leading class Courtesy of Viking The myth of the Nile looms large and cruising it to see awe-inspiring artifacts of thousands of years of Egyptian civilization and the river’s lush banks is a truly special opportunity, especially when you are onboard one of […]
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[ad_1] Insect-like drones, clear nuclear fusion, cosmic collisions and more from around the web The Most Accurate Virtual Representation of the Universe’s Evolution Helmed by the University of Helsinki, a simulation named “Sibelius-Dark” produced the most accurate virtual representation of the universe’s development to date. It captures the Big Bang to the present, reproducing the […]
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18,000 Ancient Egyptian “Notepads” Discovered – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Archaeologists have uncovered 18,000 “notepads” in the ancient Egyptian town of Athribis. Known as “ostraca,” the inscribed pottery fragments provide insight into life in Egypt some 2,000 years ago—with everything from shopping lists to trade records and schoolwork marked onto the remnants. Some of them had repeated phrases, believed to be student punishment. “Around 80% […]
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[ad_1] Mutant enzymes, an unseen film by a French New Wave icon, design-forward campers and more Mutant Enzyme Breaks Down Plastic in Hours New research published by French scientists in the journal Nature addresses their discovery and manipulation of a mutant bacterial enzyme that can break down PET plastic into raw materials in a matter […]
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Portrait of a Goddess Found in a 3,000-Year-Old Coffin – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Inside 3,000-year-old mummy Ta-Kr-Hb’s coffin (which hadn’t been moved or surveyed in a century) archaeologists from Scotland’s Perth Museum and Art Gallery uncovered a stunning series of paintings she was buried with. These two new paintings are located on the lower part of the coffin’s interior and exterior, a place that conservators and archaeologists […]
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[ad_1] Celebrating trans love, the return of a design icon, maps from the mind, ancient inventions gain new life and more GLAAD’s #TransLoveStories Portraits for Transgender Day of Visibility 31 March marked the 10th annual Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), observed worldwide to celebrate trans people everywhere. Representation is vital, always, and especially when it […]
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[ad_1] Putting excess London Underground heat to use, an app for analog photography, a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus and more NASA’s Highest-Resolution Photo of Mars NASA’s new image of the surface of Mars—the space agency’s highest-resolution photograph of the Red Planet ever—comprises 1,200 total images. The wide-pan photograph features what researchers hypothesize are former sites of lakes […]
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2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Adorned With Leopard Painting Found – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] On the western bank of the Nile, 15 feet below ground, an archeological dig (led by Patrizia Piacentini from the University of Milan) has unearthed a stunning 2,000-year-old sarcophagus lid adorned with a colored painting of a leopard’s face. “Her name is Mafdet (meaning ‘she who runs’) and she was the first of the […]
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Archaeology, Camels and Cars: From The Dead Sea to Petra
[ad_1] It’s early morning in Jordan’s Wadi Rum and we’re loading our gear into the fleet of Infiniti QX80s, backed by only the sounds coming from doors opening and closing shut, and feet shuffling silently in the red sand. Despite the bright LED lights of our fleet SUVs, an observatory’s worth of glowing stars remain […]