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Essex Egyptology Group

At our April meeting (Sunday 6th, ONLINE via Zoom), Dr Nicholas Brown will give a talk on "The Valley of the Kings: Its Life and Afterlife".

The Valley of the Kings is arguably one of the most famous archaeological sites in Egypt. For nearly five hundred years, the area was used by the kings of Egypt, their family members, and certain elite courtiers as a sacred necropolis during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550-1069 BC) (1/3)

A scene from a state funeral, taken from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, showing a party of twelve high officials dressed in white linen and pulling a rope attached to the funerary sledge.
#ancientEgypt#egyptology#ancientHistory
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Tom Elliott

I just had an email from Gabe Moss at the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill alerting me to "the release of Livy Study Maps: Book 22, the latest addition to the Maps for Texts series."

More here: awmc.unc.edu/2025/03/20/livy-s

"... this set of twenty-three maps is designed for students and teachers working with Livy’s text, and offers detailed coverage of famous episodes such as the Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae, as well as of lesser-known campaigns from Book 22 of the History of Rome. The maps are available as free digital downloads under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license."

awmc.unc.eduLivy Study Maps: Book 22 | Ancient World Mapping Center
#Livy#ancientGeography#ancientHistory
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Tom Elliott

Prof. Sarah Bond gave a great talk to a packed house at #ISAWNYU tonight about her new book:

Bond, Sarah E. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.

isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawlib-bo

Book cover of Strike by Sarah Bond showing a broken Roman column
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World · ISAW Library Events: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman EmpireThis lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sarah Bond will share some of her research from her recently published book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press), exploring how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged.
#ancientHistory#labor#ancientRome
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Pleiades gazetteer

New map application from the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill: The Geography of Pliny the Elder

"The Geography of Pliny the Elder compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database, available for download from the ISAW website, includes some 6,500 unique entries, and this application maps all those entries that are locatable. Users can click on a feature or use the search function to find citations in Pliny and a link to a feature's associated Pleiades entry, where further data, much of it beyond the scope of Pliny, can be found."

https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/new-from-awmc-the-geography-of-pliny-the-elder

#ancientGeography #classics #ancientHistory

Pleiades: a gazetteer of past placesNew from AWMC: The Geography of Pliny the ElderThis online application compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database includes some 6,500 unique entries, and this application maps all those entries that are locatable.
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Pleiades gazetteer

Last Week in Pleiades (24 February - 3 March 2025)

Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 44 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Nicolas Souchon and Néhémie Strupler.

A complete list of additions and changes, include general descriptions of places, change summaries, credit lines, and links to the actual gazetteer entries may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-24-february-3-march-2025

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #gazetteers #HGIS #LAWDI #LOD

A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map spans west to east: Morocco and the Iberian Peninsula to the Ganges deltaand north to south: Scandinavia to the central Arabian peninsula.
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Tom Elliott

Kristina Killgrove in Live Science on the newly reported "mystery" frescoes from the House of Thiasus at Pompeii:

livescience.com/archaeology/ro

"The wall painting, which is nearly life-size, runs the length of three walls along a large banquet hall, while the fourth wall opens onto a garden. Against a bright red background, there are numerous figures of maenads — female followers of Dionysus, the god of wine — who are depicted as hunters, carrying swords in their hands and slaughtered goats on their shoulders. The fresco also depicts young satyrs, part-goat and part-human creatures, playing the flute and performing a sacrifice of wine. At the center of the fresco is an old satyr with a young woman who is about to be initiated into the Dionysian mystery cult. The ancient cult, which dates back at least to the classical Greeks of the fifth century B.C., is called a "mystery" because the initiation and practices ..."

Live Science · Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who 'breaks free from male order to dance freely, go hunting and eat raw meat in the mountains'By Kristina Killgrove
#Pompeii#ancientHistory#archaeology
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DoomsdaysCW

Between Two Worlds: Gender Non-Conforming Deities

March 27, 2019 by Brianne Raven Wolf

"As a transwoman, I have often wondered if there were others like me in Ancient Mythology. Were there ancient deities who were trans, non-binary, or gender non-conforming? Turns out there were. Ancient Greece had a prominent culture of gender fluidity, as did many other ancient societies.

"#Aphroditus was sometimes referred to as the male form of Aphrodite. Statues of him showed him with a female figure, breasts, narrow waist, long hair, women’s clothing, but also with a penis and testes. He is said to have originated on the island of Cyprus, and arrived in Athens in the 4th century BCE. He was sometimes celebrated there in #transvestite rites. It is said the festivals allowed 'women to act the part of men, and men to put on woman’s clothing and play the part of women' (from Wikipedia). He was definitely gender #NonConforming.

"Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes, messenger of the gods, and Aphrodite, Goddess of love. His name is a combination of both of his parents. From Wikipedia: 'According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably handsome boy with whom the water nymph Salmacis fell in love with and prayed to be united forever. The gods granted the request, so that he and the nymph became united in such a manner that the two could not be called a man or a woman, but were both' (Metamorphoses IV, pp. 274-388 , 8 AD). Hermaphroditus is the god of hermaphrodites and effeminates. I believe in today’s society, Hermaphroditus would be a modern day pre-operative transwoman.

"#Loki, a Norse god, also called the trickster god, would many times disguise himself as a woman. Some myths said that Loki was bisexual. Loki was an accomplished shape-shifter and according to legend has also appeared as a salmon, a mare, a fly, and of course a woman.

"Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Met. 9, pp. 666-797) mentions #Iphis and #Ianthe. Iphis was born a girl, but her mother passed her off as a boy so that she wouldn’t be killed. The name was fitting for a boy and a girl, so that wasn’t too much of a problem. According to the myth, Iphis as a 15 year old boy, fell in love with another girl, Ianthe. Iphis’s mother appealed to the Goddess Isis for help. Isis transformed Iphis into a male before Iphis and Ianthe got married. I believe this may have been the first sex change. At least they ended up happily ever after according to the myth.

"#Ikapati was a #GreatMother Goddess of the Tagalog society in the #Philippines. She was a protector of crops, animals that were domesticated and, according to myth, gave mankind agriculture. It was said that she appeared many times dressed in male clothes. This would have made sense as she was frequently seen in the fields. In many indigenous cultures, including in the Americas, it was accepted that more than two genders were socially and spiritually accepted. These gender non-conforming individuals were seen as people who were very spiritual, and many became leaders and healers in their societies. In Native American culture, many who were called #TwoSpirit became shamans.

"#Ometeotl was an Aztec God of duality. He was considered both male and female, using the names Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl. He had an equivalent god in Mayan mythology, #Itzamna, who identified with #HunabKu, an invisible god. Both gods could be considered self-created gods according to myth. Ometeotl was to the Aztecs the idea that their Universe consisted of dark and light, night and day, order and war, and things like that.

"I’m of the opinion that if more people would understand that there are more than binary people in this world, it would be a better and safer place for all. I think the ancients got it right in their beliefs. People were just human beings, and not judged only on their biological sex. A good book to consider reading is this excellent book by Gerald N. Callahan, PhD., Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes. From the book: 'On October 10, 1970, the day she was born, she was named Dorothy Maree Alaniz–a baby girl. Curiously, though, no one filled out a birth certificate that day. When the certificate was finally filed on November 5, the name on it was Rudolph Andrew Alaniz. Within less than one month after her birth, this girl became a boy.' The book is available from Amazon and other book sources."

patheos.com/blogs/agora/2019/0
#WorldHistory #Histodon #WeExist #Fascism #GenderFascists #GenderFluid #TwoSpirit #NonBinary #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransPeople #AncientHistory #TransAndNonBinaryRightsAreHumanRights

Agora · Between Two Worlds: Gender Non-Conforming DeitiesI'm of the opinion that if more people would understand that there are more than binary people in this world, it would be a better and safer place for all. I think the ancients got it right in their beliefs. People were just human beings, and not judged only on their biological sex.
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Nonilex

Inscriptions indicate that the tomb was the burial place of King Thutmose II, who is believed to have ruled for about half a decade some 3,500 years ago, per a stmnt from #Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities. Preliminary findings suggest his mummy, which had already been discovered, was moved along w/some of the tomb’s contents when it flooded shortly after his death.

#ThutmoseII #archeology #AncientHistory #AncientEgypt #history

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earthling

Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations by Gregory Shushan

Reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on the formation of religious beliefs, mystical literature, and ritual practices.

• Focuses on the afterlife beliefs of five ancient world regions: Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt, Sumer and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Vedic India, pre-Buddhist China, and Maya and Aztec Mesoamerica.

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#AncientHistory
#religion
#NDE
#death
#afterlife

Shows how the similarities among afterlife beliefs and their correspondences with NDEs reveal that they both stem from universal truths Taking readers on a thought-provoking journey into our ancestors' beliefs about death, dying, and the afterlife, Gregory Shushan, Ph.D., reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on religious beliefs and ritual practices throughout human history. Focusing on five ancient world regions in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Mesoamerica, Shushan expertly explores each civilization's afterlife beliefs.
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