THE HISTORICAL SENSE OF UNRELIABLE CLASSICAL ANCIENT STORIES ABOUT EGYPT

Some Basic Mechanisms for Common Sense Reasoning About Stories Environments

This work is concerned wi th the problem of reasoning about physical objects and t h e i r pos i t ions in the space. The main goal is to develop a system which is able to " imagine" the scene in which a s tory takes p lace, i n f e r r i n g by means of su i tab le ru les the items which are not e x p l i c i t l y named, in order to v e r i f y the relevance of knowledge about the physical en...

Telling stories about stories.

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

The Ancient Egypt "Race" Issue

Corynebacterium in ancient Egypt.

Recent molecular analysis of pathogenic bacterial DNA recovered from a dental abscess in the mummified head of a woman more than sixty years old, buried in K95 in Dra Abu el Naga in the necropolis of western Thebes, has identified Corynebacteria as one of the pathogens present in the New Kingdom, c. 1550-1080 BC, either in the original inhabitant of the tomb or in a later, intrusive New Kingdom...

Dwarfs in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt was one of the most advanced and productive civilizations in antiquity, spanning 3000 years before the "Christian" era. Ancient Egyptians built colossal temples and magnificent tombs to honor their gods and religious leaders. Their hieroglyphic language, system of organization, and recording of events give contemporary researchers insights into their daily activities. Based on the...