"Archaeologists have finally found ancient Egyptian wax" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Jan 2020 3:06 p.m. PST |
…head cones. "Long before extraterrestrial Coneheads in Saturday Night Live skits claimed to have come from France, real-life cone heads existed in Egypt. Prominent people wearing cone-shaped headgear appear frequently in Egyptian art dating from around 3,550 to 2,000 years ago. But none of those cones have ever been found, until now. Archaeologists report unearthing two such headpieces at the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. Built by the pharaoh Akhenaten and occupied from around 1347 B.C. to 1332 B.C., Amarna contains thousands of graves of ordinary people. Excavated skeletons of two people were topped by remnants of head cones, archaeologist Anna Stevens of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues report in the December Antiquity. One cone adorned the skeleton of a woman in her 20s. The other was atop the skeleton of a 15- to 20-year-old of undetermined sex…"
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| Narratio | 02 Jan 2020 7:07 p.m. PST |
Being an old fart, upon reading the headline of Egyptian wax, I thought "Rameses Greatest Hits" and "Thutmoses Sings the Blues". But then the medication cut in… |
| Tango01 | 03 Jan 2020 1:06 p.m. PST |
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