The word “mummy” derives from the Arabic mummiya, meaning “bitumen” or “pitch” (tar or asphalt), and refers to the black resin discovered on bodies placed in Late Period burials. The ancient Egyptian word for “mummy” was sah, meaning “nobility” and “dignity.

One of the most popular misconceptions about ancient Egyptians is that they worshiped animals such as cats, dogs, and birds. Some animals, such as the Apis bull, may have been sacred, but the majority were not. Instead, as in many religions, animals symbolized certain gods and—just like figurines of animals in bronze, terracotta, faience, or other materials—their mummies served as votive offerings to those gods.

The ancient Egyptians included images of people making and eating food in their art, described food in their texts, and even buried items of food in tombs with the deceased. Thus we have a fairly good idea of what they ate. The staples of the average person’s diet were bread—made in many different shapes—beer, and vegetables. Bread and beer are the first two items mentioned in standard offering formulas for the deceased. (Learn more about offerings.

Egyptians literally believed that cats were divine, to the point that if a household cat died, its owners would shave their eyebrows in mourning and lovingly transport the cat carcass to one of the cities devoted to mummifying cats for their journey to the next world. (They apparently didn't make it. In 1888, about 300,000 cat mummies were discovered still lounging around this world in the ancient city of Beni Hassan.

The great pyramid and other monuments may have orientations to constellations and the precessional cycle according to the "Orion Mystery" by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbet. How long does a millennia last and how does that compare to the length of a great age? A millennia lasts for 1000 years while a great age lasts for about 2,160 years, so a great age lasts a little over 2 millennia.

Elite men and women cut their hair short or shaved it completely, either to keep cool, to fit under a wig, or as a precaution against lice. They wore wigs made of human hair, and hairpieces of artificial curls or braids that could be added separately. Wigs were probably worn in public and at parties. Men and women also shaved their body hair and Egyptian priests were required to shave their heads and bodies as part of a purification process during their terms of service in a temple.

There is no single ancient Egyptian word equivalent to the word “time,” although many words referred to segments or kinds of time such as parts of the day, specific occurrences, and “never.” Unlike the Western calendar, the ancient Egyptians did not have a continuous dating system from a fixed point. An early lunar calendar, based on the cycles of the moon, coexisted with a solar or civil calendar by the time of the Old Kingdom.

Translations of ancient manuscripts show that aromatic medicine, the ancient art of aromatherapy, was recorded in Egypt more than six thousand years ago. Egyptians made no distinction between what we call cosmetics, perfume, pharmaceuticals, medicine and religious ceremonies. These were all part of a single system for healing carried out through the priesthood. Egyptians also made no distinction between physical, emotional mental or spiritual ailments.

The ancient Egyptians worshipped the Neteru. These people often saw the presence of the Neteru in various animals and other aspects of nature: Heru's majesty is echoed in the flight of the hawk; Sekhmet's strength is easily seen in the powerful lion; the rebirth of Ausir was evoked by the cycle of barren drought and renewal in the annual flood of the Nile.

It is alleged by those who claim to be survivors of Treblinka camp that some 800,000 bodies were first buried in mass graves and that these were later exhumed and burned on iron rails set over wood fires. Treblinka was not equipped with crematories. Aerial photography of the site taken in 1944 shows no indication of mass graves or locations where continuous burning of bodies had taken place.

This one is the most asked question of all. What would you like to hear? We’d tell a different story depending on our mood. Toni Morrison wrote a book in which a main character is known as "Milkman Dead". The book is called Song of Solomon. Joe came up with the name in high School for a creative writing project. The name actually existed before the band was a reality. When Dave and Joe started to write songs together, they actually considered the name "Hüsker Du".

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a) It is alleged by those who claim to be survivors of Treblinka camp that some 800,000 bodies were first buried in mass graves and that these were later exhumed and burned on iron rails set over wood fires. Treblinka was not equipped with crematories. Aerial photography of the site taken in 1944 shows no indication of mass graves or locations where continuous burning of bodies had taken place.

My second-ever serious cartoon, Heart of Tree. Also, some weird joke in high school about me eating squirrels. Came from an RPG I was playing with my buds, with my character eating a squirrel. The joke kinda grew, I guess. It's a catchy name; no one ever forgets it. Plus, I get to have a skull logo and pretend I'm cool and edgy.

Viking burials often used boats like we use caskets today. For the highest status people, large ships were often buried with the dead. Some Vikings preferred to be cremated. But even then, the ashes were buried with artifacts the dead had used in their life, perhaps because the Vikings believed they could reuse these objects in the next life. To learn more about Viking ship burials follow the link.

Hell. Seriously though: Cletus is a character I invented a while back when I tried to draw a human skeleton. I liked using him, because he allowed me to get really evil with my humour. The horns came about entirley by accident one day. I just over drew a line, and turned it into a horn. I just decided to keep them around. If you've noticed, his Sternum is shaped like a necktie. I thought it'd be a nice subliminal effect where he tries to seem all classy but he's really just an asshole.

Pretty much, for .NET developers. The .NET Framework has a new remoting model which is not based on DCOM. DCOM was pretty much dead anyway, once firewalls became widespread and Microsoft got SOAP fever. Of course DCOM will still be used in interop scenarios.

Not immediately. The approach for .NET 1.0 was to provide access to the existing COM+ services (through an interop layer) rather than replace the services with native .NET ones. Various tools and attributes were provided to make this as painless as possible. Over time it is expected that interop will become more seamless - this may mean that some services become a core part of the CLR, and/or it may mean that some services will be rewritten as managed code which runs on top of the CLR.