archaeology

Papyrus (5th Cent. B.C.E.-8th Cent. C.E.)

Image of a papyrus plant

Location of papyrus growth

Egypt is important for papyrus in two respects. First, papyrus plants grew almost exclusively in the region of the Nile delta. Secondly, the dry climate of Egypt made it possible for papyri to endure, in many cases, for over 2 millenia.
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BA as Form of Divine Manifestation in Ancient Egypt

by Jan Bergman

This paper was published as “BA som gudomlig uppenbarelseform i det gamla Egypten,” Religion och Bibel 29, 1970, pp. 55-89. In 1994, I translated it into English for my own study purposes. Since this contribution contains original insights that were not made available in the more widely read languages of Egyptology, I’ve decided to put the translation here on my Web site. I hope it will prove to be of use to serious students of Egyptian religion.

At the end of the paragraph preceding the reference to note 23, the reader will find: “Since we intend to treat this essential aspect of the bA(w) concept later in this survey, we do not need to detain ourselves in this matter without . . . with this relationship in mind, we can proceed to what Egypt’s most ancient comprehensive text compilation, the Pyramid Texts, has to say on the subject.” This passage begins at the end of a page and continues at the top of the next page. Evidently, when the page makeup was done, one or more lines were omitted; the ellipsis indicates the break in the text.—D.L.

The choice of subject for this lecture can be explained in many ways. In addition to the central role that bA undeniably plays in Egyptian texts of widely varying sorts, I should like to stress two reasons here, by way of introduction. (more…)

by Mark Guscin 1999 ©

This article originally appeared in the November 1999 issue of the British Society for the Turin Shroud Newsletter

A paper about the supposed inscriptions visible on the Shroud was presented at the CIELT congress in Nice in 1997, by André Marion and his student Anne Laure Courage, from the Institut d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée d’Orsay. As they themselves admit, they did not discover the letters on the Shroud, they only processed the images and claim to have cleared the matter up. The first person who claimed to have seen these writings was the Italian Piero Ugolotti in 1979. He consulted a teacher of ancient languages called Aldo Marastoni, and together they published the results of the findings. In 1982, a French priest, Father Dubois, added to the findings. (more…)