Cleopatra VII
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Image via Wikipedia As I sit here rethinking my Ancient World on Television listings because there seem to be so few ‘new’ items worth watching coming out (more on this later) I wandered over to the History Channel’s website and they have a pile of preview videos from Zahi Hawass’ new series called Chasing Mummies.…
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Image via Wikipedia Folks who are still interested in Christoph Schaefer’s theories regarding the death of Cleopatra might want to watch the German science show Abenteuer Wissen for more details (not sure how long the video will be up; I can’t seem to embed it here). The takes-too-long-and-is-too-painful theory works if you take the accounts…
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The incipit of a brief item in the Telegraph: The Queen of the Nile ended her life in 30BC and it has always been held that it was the bite of an asp – now called the Egyptian cobra – which caused her demise. Now Christoph Schaefer, German historian and professor at the University of…
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ante diem ix kalendas quinctilias 47 B.C. — birth of Caesarion, a.k.a Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor (son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra) 79 A.D. — death of the emperor Vespasian 1986 — death of Moses Finley
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An excerpt from a feature on Zahi Hawass in Speigel … I don’t think comment is necessary …. Hawass reserves the right to announce all discoveries himself. Not everyone likes this. Some people feel that he is about as interested in serious research as Rapunzel was in having her hair cut. He boasted that there…
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