A MerMay special :D An adventurous pirate befriends and gets smitten with a curious (yet a little oblivious) merman. She brings him books, tools, and various artefacts on their little dates, and they bond over a common interest in astronomy..
As early as the 1960s many sightings of big cats have been talked about across Great Britain. A 2003-2004 survey was conducted by the British Big Cats Society gave the following results, based on 2,052 sightings; South West has 21% of the sightings, with South East having 16%, East Anglia 12%, Scotland 11%, and West Midlands 9%.
Many big cats have been captured or killed since 1903, all of which are believed to have escaped captivity.
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb south of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.
There are many texts from The Book of the Dead, and analysis of the new finding may shed light on ancient Egyptian funerary traditions. Conservation work is already complete, and the papyrus is being translated into Arabic, according to a translated statement, which was released in conjunction with an event marking Egyptian Archaeologists Day on Jan. 14.
This is the first full papyrus to be uncovered at Saqqara in more than 100 years, Mostafa Waziry, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said, according to the statement. Read more.
