I’m referring to this recent two-page (!) study in a medical journal: “Oldest case of gigantism? Assessment of the alleged remains of Sa-Nakht, king of ancient Egypt,” Lancet: Diabetes and Endocrinology 5:8 (August 2017): 580-581. Several folks have...
Egypt
Giant 5th Dynasty Skeleton from Giza, Egypt
I came across this article tonight — it’s accessible online: D. M. Mulhern, “A Probable Case of Gigantism in a Fifth Dynasty Skeleton from the Western Cemetery at Giza,Egypt,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15 (2005): 261–275. In...
Kenneth Kitchen’s Ancient Orient and Old Testament Available as Free PDF
This book is an important, though slightly dated, contribution to understanding the OT in its ancient Near Eastern context. It is also quite useful for addressing a range of attacks on the integrity of the OT. Prof. Kitchen was for many years an Egyptologist in the...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 144: Ezekiel 29-30
Ezekiel 29-30 are the first two of four chapters that preserve a series of oracles against Egypt and her Pharaoh. As in the case of the oracles against the prince of Tyre, Ezekiel’s imagery of cosmic, non-human forces of chaos that resist God’s order frames Yahweh’s...
Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project
Those of you interested in demonology will want to be aware of this emerging resource: the ancient Egyptian “demonbase.” The landing page description reads in part: For the first time, we bring you a sample of supernatural beings—some fully human, some...
Unknown Pyramid Complexes Discovered Using Google Earth
Pretty neat; check this link (with pictures). The interesting thing is that they seem to have the same diagonal arrangement as the pyramids of Giza. Â I can hardly wait to see what Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval come up with as to how that would fit in the Orion...
Syllabic Silliness with Jordan Maxwell
NOTE :Â For proper viewing of foreign Egyptian and Hebrew characters, download the PDF version of this document – the blog messes up the fonts. One of the readers of PaleoBabble recently asked me to take a look at some of the claims of Jordan Maxwell. I’d...