May 11, 2010
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… but it seems more interesting what that church is made of: Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the ruins of a 1600-year-old church and a nilometer, an ancient instrument used to measure the level of the Nile River, the Ministry of Culture said on Tuesday. The discovery was made during work to restore the 2700-metre-long…
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Image by DivesGallaecia via Flickr ante diem v idus maias Lemuria (day 2) — a private and public appeasement of the dead; the Roman paterfamilias would rise at midnight to conduct a ritual involving beans and bronze rites in honour of Mania — a Roman divinity who was considered the goddess of the dead; she was also…