Shamone
Funny, this didn't stand out to me at the Field when we were there last...It's eerie, and it's creepy: An ancient limestone Egyptian bust in the Field Museum is a dead bang look-a-like of singer...
View ArticleQuote: Osborn on biogeography
Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert": One of the most fascinating problems of paleontology, therefore, is to ascertain the birthplace of each of the great animal...
View ArticleQuote: Osborn on the reception of bug-hunters
More from Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert": News of the approach of an important caravan under government patronage had preceded us, and in the village of...
View ArticleQuote: Osborn on the Fayum beds
Another passage from Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert": As we ascended, we noted suddenly the entire disappearance of the sea-shells, adn entered purely...
View ArticleThe paleolakes of Egypt
A paper in the December issue of Geology, by Ted Maxwell and colleagues [1], describes evidence for a "Lake Erie-sized" paleolake in southwestern Egypt. The existence of a large ancient lake has been...
View ArticleMummy troubles
Mummies are always trouble. I hate to say it. You see, in my line of work we can do an awful lot with a skeleton. We're usually down to a few pieces of bone, so that a skeleton is an unimaginable...
View ArticleMummy trouble redux
Speaking of Jo Marchant, she has a long article in the current Nature about the mummy DNA controversy ("Ancient DNA: Curse of the Pharoah's DNA"). I wrote about the problem earlier this year: "Mummy...
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