Shrine discovered with rituals never seen to take place before in an Egyptian temple Excavations in Egypt under the Sikait Project reveal new findings ...

Shrine discovered with rituals never seen to take place before in an Egyptian temple Excavations in Egypt under the Sikait Project reveal new findings ...

Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal ...

Did Ancient Nomads Seize Control of a Roman Emerald Mine in Egypt? Recent excavations suggest the Blemmyes assumed power of the Sikait mining site between the fourth and sixth centuries C.E.

The study shows that the Blemmyes, nomad tribes living in the region from the 4th to the 6th centuries CE, may have gained control of the emerald mines until the end of the mining activities.

The temple, which appears to have been repurposed by the nomadic Blemmyes people, contained 15 of the birds of prey - many of which had been decapitated.

Columbus Believed He Would Find ‘Blemmyes’ and ‘Sciapods’ — Not People — in the New World. 5 minute read. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), painting by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger ...

Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage was really a journey into the unknown. Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and ‘monstrous men’ would be ...