Ancient Egypt in the News!
For all you budding Egyptologists out there, I thought this article was fascinating. It mulls over the possibility that Cleopatra did not die from the bite of an asp, but from poison instead! bit.ly/dm5XlK
And as if that weren’t enough ancientness and history in the news, another article talks about the discovery that the ancient beast, Leviathan, was real! And they have the fossils to prove it! (Although really, any of the beastologists from the Nathaniel Fludd books could have told them that.) http://bit.ly/cGv5tP
Seriously though, this is why I love writing historical fantasy. There are just so many mysteries out there we don’t really know the answers to!
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:11 pm
do they know who poisoned cleopatra?
July 5th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Fascinating.
Woops!
That was Theo’s word. I forgot.
Sorry!
But honestly. It WAS fascinating.
July 5th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Wow, that`s awesome! It`s great that they`re making so many new discoveries
July 6th, 2010 at 2:04 am
Sasha, I think the general consensus is that Cleopatra still killed herself, it’s just that she took poison instead of having an asp bite her.
It’s okay, Kaitlyn! Fascinating belongs to everyone! You’re allowed to use it.
Ana, it IS awesome that they keep discovering new things. Love that about our world.
July 26th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Wow,that’s really interesting! Especially about the Leviathan!
November 10th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I’ve come to the archives to see if I can test some smiles.