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An opulent ancient Egyptian tomb containing 5,000-year-old wine may have belonged to a long-forgotten female pharaoh (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Was just listening to Dominic Perry's "History of Egypt" podcast (amazing, btw, Dominic is a trained Egyptologist who has a soft spot for mummy movies and computer games), and it was talking about the King list in the monument that Rameses II finished for his dad, Seti I, and how it explicitly included Meret-Neith and every other woman who dared to rule as pharaoh, plus the entire "Amarna" dynasty, what with the creepy monotheism and all.

[–] Octomagnus 6 points 1 year ago

Billionaire rolling in paying top dollar to get a cask of that wine to put in their cellar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"The recent excavation of Meret-Neith's grave revealed the mud-brick tomb was lined with large wine jars, containing dried grape seeds, according to a press release from the University of Vienna.

Many of the wine jars were still sealed with the stoppers intact."

It's a shame it's not more specific, is there no wine left just the seeds from the mixture? Sure a CT scan would show liquid.

[–] medicsofanarchy 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone have a mirror? Archive.today seems to be on the fritz...

Solution, temporary or not, using Firefox:

Go into Settings > Privacy & Security > DNS over HTTPS.

Next to "Firefox won’t use secure DNS on these sites", click the Manage Exceptions button

Add three entries: archive.is, archive.ph, archive.today

Important: The site (and the Archive Page extension, which I use) will continue to fail until you close the Settings tab you opened to perform these steps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What's Live, Love, Laugh in hieroglyphics?