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Making papyrus is laborious but in fact, quite straightforward. The plant itself - a kind of reed that can grow to about 15 feet (or 4.5m) high - was plentiful in the Nile Delta. The pith of the plant is sliced into strips, which are soaked and pressed together to form sheets - very conveniently, the organic fibres of papyrus were meshed together without needing glue, and the sheets are then dried and rubbed smooth with a stone. The Rhind Papyrus certainly gives us no sense of maths as an abstract discipline through which the world can be conceived and contemplated anew. But it does let us glimpse - and share - the daily headaches of an Egyptian administrator. Like all civil servants, he seems to be looking anxiously over his shoulder at the National Audit Office, eager to ensure that he is getting value for money. So there are calculations about how many gallons of beer, or how many loaves of bread, you should be able to get from a given amount of grain, and how to calculate whether the beer or the bread that you've been paying for has been adulterated.

Detailed window surrounds and panelled reveals survive in a number of rooms as does historic plaster cornices.” Some of the later traditions pertaining to the Seven Great Houses havebeen interpretedas memories of the Parthian Empire's major administrative divisions. [6] Tabari in his History of the Prophets and Kings provides the following legend:

Bištāsef (Vishtaspa) appointed seven persons to the highest ranks, and they were the magnates, [including] Nihābiδa, and his residence was Dihistān in the Land of Jurjān (Hyrcania); and Kārin the Parthian ( Qārin al-Fahlavi) and his residence was Māh-Nihāvand (i.e., Media); and Sūrēn the Parthian, and his residence was Sejistān (Sakastan); and Isfandyāδ the Parthian, and his residence was Ray. [6] See also [ edit ] For me, the most remarkable thing about this papyrus is how close it lets me get to the fascinating quirky details of aspects of daily life under the pharaohs, not least culinary. So did the Egyptians really eat foie gras? From the papyrus, you can learn that if you force-feed a goose, it needs five times as much grain as a free-range goose will eat. But Ancient Egypt also seems to have had battery-farming, because we're told that geese kept in a coop - and so presumably unable to move - will need only a quarter of the food consumed by their free-range counterparts, and so would be much cheaper to fatten for market. Whether there were also champions of animal rights in Ancient Egypt at this date we just don't know. Schweblin’s characters are often unsettled by their home environment or envious of others’ domesticity

The existing exposed stone walls are to be repaired and repointed where necessary in lime mortar and, “any badly decayed stones are to be indented or replaced with natural stone to match existing”. If we didn't have the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, we'd actually know very little indeed about how the Egyptians did mathematics. The algebra is entirely what we would call linear algebra, straight line equations. There are some what now we would call arithmetical progressions, which are a little bit more sophisticated. The geometry's a very basic kind as well. Ahmose tells us how to calculate the area of a circle, and how to calculate the area of a triangle. There is nothing in this papyrus that would trouble your average GCSE student, and most of the stuff is rather less advanced than that." It owes its name to an Aberdeen lawyer, Alexander Rhind, who in the 1850s took to wintering in Egypt because the dry heat helped his tuberculosis. There, in Luxor, he bought this papyrus, which turns out to be the largest mathematical text we know, not just from Egypt but from anywhere in the ancient world.Also, maybe I had a really sheltered childhood. I mean, I had brothers, and boys on the street I played with every day, but we never had the need to show each other our bits every five seconds. I am sure we did and went, well that's odd, and moved on. What is with the overt sexualisation of children in every second book I read? I understand that teenagehood is a western construct. I understand there is a thin line between kids and adults in many cultures. I understand that a lot of kids in many cultures around the world live in the same room as their parents sex life. They sit together and recite poems and stories to compensate for all the needs they cannot fulfill. They sit together until prayer at dawn, when Esma gives Süleyman a handkerchief full of the most delectable Turkish fruit. By providing the sanitary facilities and a staff kitchen in this new extension it ensures that the main principal rooms remain undivided, allowing the plan-form or the original dwelling to remain relatively unaltered.”

Another iconic part of Armagh’s history, restored by support from the Armagh Townscape Heritage Scheme was Armagh’s Golden Teapot. The papers reveal that, as a result of the recently constructed neighbouring building, a “narrow gap” has been formed between the extension and the new return of No 2 Seven Houses, making the maintenance of the rear roof slope and gutter “extremely awkward”. Colourful hieroglyphs captured the attention of medieval Arab travellers as they explored ancient temples and tombs, particularly from the AD 900s onwards. Describing the mysterious writing as the ‘letters of birds’, most probably due to the frequent appearance of bird signs, Arab scholars hoped to uncover the secrets of ancient sciences and magic. Some used hieroglyphs as cryptic codes for the Arabic alphabet, while others consulted local Coptic speakers, searching for a way to understand the ancient texts. Interest from Europe

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Het is een heel mooi werk waarin het verhaal op een originele manier gestalte krijgt. Niet de vrouwen vertellen het verhaal maar wel de huizen waarin ze hun levens leidden. De huizen werden door mannenhanden gebouwd maar het waren wel vrouwenhanden die de de zorg op hen namen om ze te onderhouden en ze mooi te maken. With the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and ABC Council, the project to restore No. 1 Seven House will have a positive impact on this part of the city while preserving and protecting Armagh’s built heritage.” In ancient Egypt, being able to write was a key to success as only about 1% of the population were literate. Those who were unable to read or write employed scribes to draw up contracts, letters and wills. Not all scribes mastered hieroglyphs, as the script was typically reserved for formal and religious monuments. Instead, many learned hieratic and demotic, the cursive scripts used in everyday administration. Family and society From the 1400s, Rome became the bustling centre for Egyptian studies. Ancient monuments that had fallen into ruin, brought to Italy as trophies of Roman conquest long ago, were rediscovered and restored. Scholars of the Renaissance period (1300–1550) began to study the inscriptions and old manuscripts that slowly reached them in Europe from travellers to Egypt. They believed that hieroglyphs represented concepts as symbols, rather than a written language. The French Expedition The application is by Enagh Construction Ltd, which is based on the Mall in Armagh, and the architects are McCreanor & Co, of Craigavon.

In seven houses there are seven cats. Each cat catches seven mice. Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn and each ear of corn, if sown, would have produced seven gallons of grain. How many things are mentioned in total? While you're counting, I'll tell you that this is just one of nearly a hundred similar problems, all equally complicated, all carefully written out, with the answers, and showing the workings in best schoolbook manner, that are recorded in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt, and the major source for our understanding of how the Egyptians thought about numbers. And if you're still counting the cats, and the mice, and the ears of grain in the puzzle that I began with, the answer is, of course ...19,607. The Seventh House shows us that partnerships can take many forms: marriage, business relationships, contracts, legalities, negotiations and agreements. We will cooperate to a greater or lesser extent in these varied partnerships. The quality of that cooperation, in essence how we relate to the other, is key to the Seventh House. Why do we choose this partnership? Is it for love or money? Practical reasons? Social considerations? There are many reasons for uniting with another. We may choose to fill voids we see in ourselves. We may simply want the company and companionship of another. The partnerships we form say a great deal about ourselves and also serve to teach us much. This house wants us to know that the quality of our partnerships will enhance our lives, make them fuller, more special and better for everyone. One of Armagh’s most historic buildings has risen from the ashes thanks to the multi-million-pound Armagh Townscape Heritage scheme – a partnership project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council and building owners.The access between the main stairwell and the four-storey lean-to extension will be rationalised and a rooflight will be provided to allow light to flood the stairwell again.

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