Seshat, meaning ‘female scribe’, was seen as the goddess of writing, historical records, accounting and mathematics, measurement and architecture to the ancient Egyptians. She was depicted as a woman wearing a panther-skin…
The cane bender
Branches, which nowadays are often considered waste products, were used extensively. They are stronger and more pliable than sawed pieces of wood of the same girth, but generally they do not have…
Middle Paleolithic: 100,000 – 30,000 BC
Between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic eras, the Abbassia Pluvial ended and the Sahara returned to a desert state. By this time Homo erectus had evolved into Homo neanderthalensis, and began to…
The lathe
This tool came into use during the Persian period (ca 500 BCE). Two planks were connected forming a frame into which the workpiece was inserted. A piece of cord was wound around…
Church of St Francis of Assisi at Old Goa
This splendid building was earlier a small which consists of three attars and a choir which were constructed by five Franciscan Friars in 1517. This was then converted into a fascinating building…
Sopedu
Sopedu was a border patrol god in his role of “lord of the east”, and was depicted either as a crouching falcon or Bedouin warrior wearing a crown of tall plumes. However,…
New Evidence European Migration to the Orient
In July 1996 two students wading in the Columbia River at Kennewick, Washington, stumbled across the skeletal remains of a middle-aged European male. At first anthropologists presumed they had discovered a pioneer…
Anubis
Also Names Anpu, Inpu, Ienpw, Imeut (Lord-of-the-Place-of-Embalming). He’s god of mummification, and the dead on their path through the underworld. Have the appearance of a man with the head of a jackal-like…