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Stunning ancient Egyptian tie I just bought for myself!
This is the most beautiful tie I have ever seen in my entire life! I just could not resist it!
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By Ben Gurino
New technology allows scientists to visualize ancient Maya cities like never before
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation. A bright stone wall peeked through the leaves, “unspeakably alone and majestic and desolate — the mark of a great civilization gone.”
Nearly a century later, surveyors once again took flight over the ancient Maya empire, and mapped the Guatemala forests with lasers. The 2016 survey, whose first results were published this week in the journal Science, comprises a dozen plots covering 830 square miles, an area larger than the island of Maui. It is the largest such survey of the Maya region, ever.
The study authors…
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Several Egyptian hieroglyphic determinatives:
Determinatives appear in every single Egyptian inscription. Determinatives appear to the right of each inscription. It is not possible to write any word or sentence in Egyptian hieroglyphics without appending a determinative, because without determinatives, inscriptions are meaningless. Many words are identical in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and without a determinative, they would be meaningless.
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HOW TO SAY 8 WORDS in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mycenaean Linear B, ancient Greek and modern Greek!
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How is my Progress?
I haven’t post for while and here is my update 🙂
I am learning Middle Egyptian by James P. Allen.
It is a wonderful book for people who are serious about learning Hieroglyphic and hieroglyphs.
SoI am learning ancient Egyptian grammar.
And it’s super fun! To be able to read hieroglyphs and understand hieroglyphic! Not just I know how each sign sounds. But meanings as well. Even after thousands of years passed I can communicate with them!
Through the book I am learning verbs, nouns, phrases and so on. Everything I need to be able to read and understand hieroglyphs fluently.
How I Learn Middle Egyptian
What is the hardest part of learning?
I thought the hardest part was memorizing all signs and words. But it is actually my own frustration of feeling like I am not smart enough.
But if I could go pass though…
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Knossos fragment KN 874 M k 111 according to Sir Arthur Evans as translated by Rita Roberts:
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Knossos tablet KN 746 M 1 11 according to Sir Arthur Evans (stirrup jars) as translated by Rita Roberts:
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Egyptian hieroglyphic for CROCODILE = DPY, definitely someone to avoid!!! He would eat the feathers anyway, and the bird to go with it, and you TOO if he had the chance!!!
