Fun/Odd
History Egypt heading to PS3 and PSP Minis
Slitherine’s Development Director Iain McNeil has announced today that History Egypt: Engineering an Empire will be available for both PS3 and PSP Minis via PSN. Egypt Engineering an Empire is a strategy game inspired by the Engineering an Empire TV series by History and games like Civilization and Advance Wars. The TV series circles the globe... »
Pyramids proposed for southern Illinois’s city
Imagine seeing pyramids hovering above interstate 57. That’s one West Frankfort man’s plan. Scott Williams calls it the Little Egypt Oasis, which would eventually include: 3 pyramids, a restaurant, truck stop and botanical gardens. It would take serious road-work, like re-vamping the ramps and creating frontage roads into West Frankfort, infrastructure development and a lot... »
Egyptian blue pigment found in Romanesque altarpiece in Barcelona
A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) has discovered remains of Egyptian blue in a 12th Century church altarpiece in the church of Sant Pere de Terrassa (Barcelona). The results of this research have just been published in the journal Archaeometry. Egyptian blue or Pompeian blue was a pigment frequently used by... »
“Weeeeee’re off to see the pyramids”
Image via Wikipedia That’s what an Air India airlines crew might have been singing as they failed to board their Boeing 777, going instead on a sightseeing tour of the Pyramids of Giza, leaving passengers at Cairo Airport waiting for a long 16 hours. The April 15 flight was originally scheduled from Mumbai to Toronto, but... »
King Tut Trivia – How much you know?
He deserves to be hanged, but your knowledge of King Tutankhamen might save the obnoxious kangaroo from the gallows. Find out how much you know about the golden boy king in this special version of Hangaroo with an Egyptian twist. »
Giza pyramid climber arrested by military commandos as thousands below watch
A 24 year old man named Hassan Farooq Anter was apprehended by military commandos who dropped from a helicopter poised on top of the pyramid of Khafre, the second largest of the Giza pyramids, and wrestled him aboard the craft. The entire operation took about ten minutes, according to one of the many witnesses... »
Joan of Arc relics not really Joan’s
Image via Wikipedia In an extensive new study, a team of scientists has determined that the revered relics of Joan of Arc are nothing more than the bones of a human and a cat tracing back to ancient Egypt. The relics, which have fooled onlookers for decades, did resemble burnt bones, in keeping with historical accounts... »
“Mummy paper” not an urban legend – says researcher
S.J. Wolfe of Worcester, a senior cataloger and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society, believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed true. Several American paper manufacturers in Maine and Connecticut were believed to... »
El Koshary Today: Egyptians laugh at their own woes in new social satire website
Like its American model “The Onion”, El Koshary Today uses sarcasm and imagination to raise awareness of some of the serious (and not so serious) issues plaguing Egypt, such as sexism, harassment, tyranny, corruption, religious fundamentalism, environmental and economic affairs. Here are some examples of El Koshary Today’s ingenious satire: - Egyptian grooms can now complain... »
Dr Zahi Hawass discusses the mummy curse
When KV 62, the tomb of Tutankamun, was found, an English reporter translated a piece of text from the front of the Anubis shrine incorrectly. She claimed it said “I will kill anyone who enters this tomb.” But if this text represented an actual, effective curse, everyone who entered the tomb should have died... »
