A little bit about cats: the history of domestication and interesting facts about the behavior of pets
Cats have lived among humans for thousands of years. They likely began hanging around human grain stores, attracted by mice and other vermin, and eventually spread around the world when sailors took them aboard their ships. The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the cat family, a group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars, and pumas. It is also the only member of this family that has been domesticated.
Astrophysicist Claims 5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Coffins Depict Milky Way Galaxy
A new study suggests that ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy.
The world’s largest observatory, built before our era, is located in Egypt
In 2024, archaeologists discovered a huge observatory in Egypt, which they say is the largest ever found and dates back to the sixth century BC. Several stones with sundials and inscriptions related to astronomy were found at the site.
New facts in the history of Ancient Egypt have been discovered
It would seem that Egypt has been dug up and down, but archaeologists and scientists are finding new facts to study. For example, mysterious plasma bubbles have appeared above the pyramids; China has recorded these strange atmospheric phenomena using modern radar. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old fort in the desert, which contains evidence of the pharaoh’s stay. The ancient Egyptians used so much copper that they polluted the harbor near the pyramids.
Top Archaeological Novelties Found Underwater in 2024
Surprisingly, historical landmarks can survive in water. A 2,000-year-old temple from the “Indiana Jones civilization” has been found submerged off the coast of Italy. An ancient sunken bridge in Spain shows that people inhabited the Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ago. A torrential downpour hit an excavation site and uncovered a 233-million-year-old dinosaur. Archaeologists have discovered underwater images of several New and Late Kingdom pharaohs in the southern Egyptian province of Aswan. Archaeologists have found a centuries-old statue of a Greek god at the bottom of a Roman sewer.
More than thirty new tombs were discovered in Egypt at the end of June 2024
30 new Egyptian tombs have stunned archaeologists, revealing new secrets and raising new questions about ancient Egyptian civilization.
Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Myths
Ancient Egyptian mythology is not as widely popular as the mythology of Ancient Greece, primarily because the worldview of the ancient Greeks is incomparably closer to us. Hellenic ideas about beauty, justice, the ideal state structure, the hierarchy of moral and ethical values and, most importantly, the artistic understanding and expression of all these categories largely coincide with certain analogues from our time or from eras relatively close to us in time. Therefore, the ideological and semantic subtext of the Greek myth is easily understood (to a first approximation) by an unprepared reader.