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The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal ...

The story of the slaughter of the Sinai and Raithou martyrs has reached us via two late antique writings. The first is the Report (Διήγησις, Relatio) by the Egyptian monk Ammonius (BHG 1300).The ...

For instance, the Blemmyes are characterized as headless; they are lacking in an attribute that is assumed to be normal. “Pliny set an important precedent for medieval approaches to ethnography ...

Taken together, the discoveries suggest that the Blemmyes – as many groups and religious traditions have done throughout history – borrowed gods and rites from other cultures and adapted them to their ...

Ritual use of animal sacrifice is not unusual in Ancient Egypt and animals were frequently mummified throughout the Old, Middle, New Kingdom and onward. But a new discovery at the port of Berenike on ...

A strange ritual has been uncovered inside a tomb in Egypt involving multiple dead birds (Credit: Getty) Archaeologists are puzzled over a strange ritual uncovered inside an ancient Egyptian temple.

The dig, he said — undertaken back in January 2019 — yielded both inscriptions dedicated to several Blemmyes kings, as well as the Falcon Shrine. This structure, ...

Columbus believed he would find 'blemmyes' and 'sciapods' – not people – in the New World Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts ...