Medieval History
Who says nuns don?t have any fun? A new research project led by Professor Jennifer Westerfeld, of the University of Louisville, is taking a look at a unique set of graffiti scribbled onto the walls of a 3,200 year old Egyptian temple.
The temple was built at Abydos by Seti I, a powerful pharaoh who pushed the borders of the Egyptian empire as far as modern day Syria. It contains two courtyards, two hypostyle halls, chapels and an enigmatic structure known as the ?Osireion,? which may commemorate the Egyptian story of creation.
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Medieval History
Scribbled by a community of nuns ? Medieval Coptic graffiti adorns walls of 3,200 year-old Egyptian temple
Who says nuns don?t have any fun? A new research project led by Professor Jennifer Westerfeld, of the University of Louisville, is taking a look at a unique set of graffiti scribbled onto the walls of a 3,200 year old Egyptian temple.
The temple was built at Abydos by Seti I, a powerful pharaoh who pushed the borders of the Egyptian empire as far as modern day Syria. It contains two courtyards, two hypostyle halls, chapels and an enigmatic structure known as the ?Osireion,? which may commemorate the Egyptian story of creation.
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An extremely rare Egyptian coffin, possibly belonging to the son of a king or a very senior official, has been ?discovered? at Torquay Museum by an archaeologist at the University of Bristol. Dr Aidan Dodson, a senior research fellow in Bristol?s Department...
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