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[https://www.nature.com/articles/075537a0 by nature 4/4/1907] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/075537a0 by nature 4/4/1907] | ||
PROF. ELLIOT SMITH has applied to the study of mummification the accurate and thorough methods of observation which have won for him a foremost place among the younger generation of anatomists, the result being an autloritative memoir, which will serve both the expert and the uninitiated as an excellent introduction to the art and significance of embalming as practised in ancient Egypt. As professor of anatomy in the medical school at Cairo he has free access to the material necessary for a first-hand study of the subject. | PROF. ELLIOT SMITH has applied to the study of mummification the accurate and thorough methods of observation which have won for him a foremost place among the younger generation of anatomists, the result being an autloritative memoir, which will serve both the expert and the uninitiated as an excellent introduction to the art and significance of embalming as practised in ancient Egypt. As professor of anatomy in the medical school at Cairo he has free access to the material necessary for a first-hand study of the subject. | ||
=====Ancient Egyptians may have given cats the personality to conquer the world===== | |||
[https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-egyptians-may-have-given-cats-personality-conquer-world by David Grimm 19/6/17 Science] | |||
Around 1950 B.C.E., someone painted an unusual creature on the back wall of a limestone tomb some 250 kilometers south of Cairo. With its long front legs, upright tail, and triangular head staring down an approaching field rat, it is unmistakably a domestic cat—the first appearance in the art of ancient Egypt. In the centuries that followed, cats became a fixture of Egyptian paintings and sculptures, and were even immortalized as mummies, as they rose in status from rodent killer to pet to god. | |||
