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Spelljammer. Spelljammer is a campaign setting originally published for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( 2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastic (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment. Subsequent editions have included Spelljammer content; a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition setting update was released on August 16 ...
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard. It describes 763 signs in 26 categories (A–Z, roughly). Georg Möller compiled more extensive lists, organized by historical epoch (published posthumously in 1927 and 1936).
Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [ 3] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [ 4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [ 5][ 6][ 7] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten [ 8]
A new set of magical spells and quests has been released in CastleVille this week, and they come from a rather unusual source: a talking frog by the name of Surly Sal. Sal is apparently Alastair's ...
At least six people are dead and seven missing after a fishing vessel carrying 27 onboard sank in the South Atlantic about 200 miles off the coast of the Falkland Islands.
A fishing boat carrying 27 people sank nearly 200 miles (320 kilometers) off the coast of the Falkland Islands, British and Spanish maritime officials said Tuesday, leaving at least six people ...
The Antikythera mechanism ( / ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə / AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also / ˌæntaɪkɪˈ -/ AN-ty-kih-) [ 1][ 2] is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as [weasel words] the oldest known example of an analogue computer [ 3][ 4][ 5] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in ...
The dates given in this list of pharaohs are approximate. They are based primarily on the conventional chronology of Ancient Egypt , mostly based on the Digital Egypt for Universities [ 3 ] database developed by the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , but alternative dates taken from other authorities may be indicated separately.