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Arts
fromHarvard Gazette
1 day ago

When Egyptians made blue - Harvard Gazette

Egyptian blue, the first synthetic pigment, revolutionized art and materials, created around 3100 B.C. through advanced Egyptian pyrotechnology.
London politics
fromIndependent
4 days ago

Living with ambiguous loss: 'When someone is dead, you get to have a eulogy, you put a lid on a coffin. With missing, you get none of that'

Families of missing persons experience prolonged uncertainty and struggle to grieve.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
3 days ago

Unique circular temple found in Egypt

The temple is centered around a monumental circular basin 35 meters in diameter, which was connected to the Ostium Pelusiacum, allowing it to be filled with the Nile's richly silted water.
History
France politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Lebanese forced to bury their dead twice as war robs them of final goodbyes

War in Lebanon disrupts traditional funeral rites, forcing families to bury loved ones in temporary graveyards far from their hometowns.
#grief
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Fundraising

Modern Morals: My brother hasn't paid me back for my mum's funeral and it's brought up old feelings about him

fromIndependent
1 week ago
Fundraising

Modern Morals: My brother hasn't paid me back for my mum's funeral and it's brought up old feelings about him

Design
fromArchDaily
2 weeks ago

Cities of the Dead: 10 Projects Exploring Burial Architecture

Cemeteries reflect cultural attitudes towards death, embodying social and political significance through their design and organization.
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Mystery of 'second Sphinx' deepens as new footage reveals hidden clues

The footage captured by Trevor Grassi shows dozens of square shafts carved into bedrock, many extending deep underground but primarily filled with sand, raising new questions about what may lie beneath the surface.
OMG science
fromMedievalists.net
2 weeks ago

Who Lies in Winchester's Medieval Mortuary Chests? - Medievalists.net

This project demonstrates the combined power of science, the study of human remains and historical research to discover new information about the six mortuary chests and their occupants which would not have been available to us a generation ago.
History
#ancient-egypt
fromThe Local France
3 weeks ago

Mysterious ancient skeletons discovered sitting upright in France

Similar to four others unearthed nearby earlier this month, it is sitting upright at the bottom of a one-metre-wide pit. The skeleton's hands are resting in its lap. Like the others, its back is against the eastern wall, its face directed westward.
France news
#relocation
fromIndependent
1 month ago
London food

An Irish Goodbye: 'You'd be surprised how often you visit the pyramids when you actually live here'

fromIndependent
1 month ago
London food

An Irish Goodbye... from Cairo: 'You'd be surprised how often you visit the pyramids when you actually live here'

fromIndependent
1 month ago
London food

An Irish Goodbye: 'You'd be surprised how often you visit the pyramids when you actually live here'

fromIndependent
1 month ago
London food

An Irish Goodbye... from Cairo: 'You'd be surprised how often you visit the pyramids when you actually live here'

Philosophy
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Lorraine Courtney: It's time to ban eulogies outright - funerals are not an open-mic night

Eulogies should be excluded from requiem masses to preserve the centuries-old ritual, with personal remembrances reserved for wakes instead.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Almost human': life-size replicas of the dead help mend broken hearts in India

A Kolkata workshop creates lifesize replicas of deceased loved ones using clay, fiberglass, and silicon, helping families process grief by keeping realistic figures of the dead in their homes.
UK news
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Death of traditional funeral: Brits ditch burials and cremations

UK residents increasingly choose eco-friendly burial alternatives like green burials, aquamation, artificial reefs, and space burial over traditional casket burials and cremations.
fromIndependent
1 month ago

On death and dying: 'You could tell that Mammy's soul had left her body because she didn't look the same. It shocked me'

When Dympna Little lost her beloved mother Lily Little to ovarian cancer in December 2024, it was her online community - she posts comedy videos as @dimplestilskin on Instagram and TikTok - who provided unexpected support and understanding of the experience of grief.
Social media marketing
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A death scholar on why we need to stop being naive about dying: I always hear, Can't you just put me into a nice meadow?'

Australia will experience peak death around 2040 as baby boomers age, doubling annual death rates and straining healthcare systems, while end-of-life control and autonomy become increasingly valued among those with resources.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

Coffins of Amun's singers, sealed papyri found at Luxor

The coffins are elaborately painted in vivid polychrome. They were stacked in layers and carefully arranged so the 22 coffins fit into the constricted space. They were placed in 10 horizontal rows and the lids separated from the body of the coffin to maximize the limited space. There are no personal names on most of the coffins, but there are titles. The most common title found in the coffin is Singer of Amun or Chantress of Amun.
History
Relationships
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Miss Manners: Am I misunderstanding the rules of what to wear to a funeral?

Funeral dress codes have relaxed; all black is no longer mandatory, and subdued colors or church attire are now acceptable regardless of relationship to the deceased.
#book-of-the-dead
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago
Brooklyn

PREMIUM Rare, ancient 'Books of the Dead', part of Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian collection, restored for viewing for the first time

fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago
Brooklyn

PREMIUM Rare, ancient 'Books of the Dead', part of Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian collection, restored for viewing for the first time

fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Museums incorporate "scent of the afterlife" into Egyptian exhibits

Her team's analysis of the residue samples contained beeswax, plant oils, animal fats, bitumen, and resins from coniferous trees such as pines and larches, as well as vanilla-scented coumarin (found in cinnamon and pea plants) and benzoic acid (common in fragrant resins and gums derived from trees and shrubs). The resulting fragrance combined a "strong pine-like woody scent of the confers," per Huber, mixed in with "a sweeter undertone of the beeswax" and "the strong smoky scent of the bitumen."
Science
Philosophy
fromThe Conversation
2 months ago

The hidden power of grief rituals

Funeral rituals mobilize substantial resources and communal participation, creating intense shared grief and strong social bonds across personal and national communities.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Grieving Loss When There's No Clean Goodbye

Ambiguous loss is an unresolved physical or psychological absence that creates chronic uncertainty, frozen grief, and blocked meaning-making by denying clear rituals or closure.
Pets
fromScary Mommy
2 months ago

Is Preserving A Beloved Pet After Death "Creepy" - Or Just Another Way To Grieve?

A grieving owner chose pet taxidermy over cremation to preserve her dog's appearance after aggressive cancer and death.
History
fromMail Online
1 month ago

The first non-binary person? Stone Age woman was buried like a MAN

Stone Age societies in Hungary practiced flexible gender roles, with some individuals buried according to non-traditional gender norms, indicating tolerance for complex identities 7,000 years ago.
Miscellaneous
fromMail Online
2 months ago

New evidence upends origins of Egypt's Great Pyramid

Erosion-based dating suggests the Great Pyramid may date 20,000–40,000 years ago, challenging the conventional 2580 BC attribution.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

Ornate 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico

"At Monte Albán alone, more than 200 tombs of varying size and decoration reflect social, political and economic differences among the ancient Zapotecs," Javier Urcid, an anthropology professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, tells The Art Newspaper. "Built beneath residences, tombs were reused over generations-with additional burials and occasional changes to offerings or decoration. The inscribed genealogies verified membership in family lineages."
Science
History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month ago

The Family in Ancient Mesopotamia: Providing for Each Other Through Life and Past Death

Family was the essential unit providing social stability, continuity of traditions, and forming the basis for palace and temple hierarchies in ancient Mesopotamia.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

Centurion's tombstone reused in someone else's grave

Both of the cyst graves feature funerary markers reused as building material. One of them contains the partially preserved tombstone of Legio I Italica centurion Gaius Valerius Verecundus was engraved with a wreath of which only traces remain and an inscription that describes him as having been heavily pressed by fate.
History
History
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

A new 'Cleopatra' immersive experience in London will be all about Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra: The Experience opens at Immerse LDN as a 3,000 square metre, nine-gallery immersive exhibition tracing the late Ptolemaic dynasty with artefacts, AR, VR and staged environments.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 months ago

Monumental Republican tombs found in Rome suburb

An monumental early Republican-era funerary complex has been discovered in a suburb of Rome. The excavation of the Via di Pietralata east of Rome also uncovered a stretch of an ancient road, a small cult building and two monumental basins dating back to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. Remains from this early in the Republican era are scarce in the Eternal City, which make these finds very archaeologically significant.
History
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Mystery of Egypt's pyramids deepens as hidden megastructure revealed

More than 200 scans from multiple satellites, including Italy's Cosmo-SkyMed and the US-based Capella Space, showed uniform results suggesting massive pillars about 65 feet in diameter wrapped in spirals and plunging nearly 4,000 feet deep. Those pillars appear to end in 260-foot cubic chambers beneath all three pyramids and the Sphinx, which Biondi described as 'huge chambers' measuring roughly 260 feet in length and width.
History
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