scholarly journals Exploring Biographies. Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes at the University Museum of Cultural History in Oslo

CLARA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

scholarly journals A weremit kiűzése a hasból. Óegyiptomi recept hatásosságának értelmezése az újabb kutatási eredmények alapján

2015 ◽  
Vol 156 (50) ◽  
pp. 2045-2051
Author(s):  
Júlia Katona ◽  
Hedvig Győry ◽  
Anna Blázovics
Keyword(s):  
Schistosoma Haematobium ◽  
External Application ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
Egyptian History ◽  
Ancient Egyptian Medicine ◽  
Intestinal Distention

Significant percentage of today’s knowledge of ancient Egyptian medicine has been acquired from papyri left behind from various periods of Egyptian history. The longest and the most comprehensive is the Ebers papyrus, kept in the University Museum of Leipzig, which was written more than-one thousand years before Hippocrates (c. 460–377 BC). One of the riddles among the prescriptions of the Ebers papyrus Eb20 has been used in order to remove the so called “wemyt” weremit from the abdomen with the help of a drink, which consists of “jnnk”, Conyza dioscoridis in milk or sweet beer. The authors assume that the disease could be an infection of Schistosoma haematobium and/or Schistosoma mansoni. Nowadays the tea of Conyza dioscoridis is widely used as an important part of the traditional medicine against rheumatism, intestinal distention and cramps as well as an antiperspirant, and for external application to heal the wounds. The authors’ intent is to interpret the efficacy of the above-mentioned ancient prescription with the help of modern medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. Orv. Hetil., 2015, 156(50), 2045–2051.

scholarly journals The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History

1967 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmer Ringgren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Rudolf Steiner ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Philosophical Questions

This paper presents the history of the Donner Institute. The Donner Institute is an institution for the study of the history of religion and culture at the university of Åbo Akademi (Åbo, Finland). It was founded in 1957 following a stipulation in the last will of Mr. and Mrs. Uno Donner of Helsingfors, who died in 1958 and 1956 respectively. Uno Donner had shown an early interest in philosophical questions. During a visit to Egypt at the beginning of this century both he and his wife were impressed by ancient Egyptian culture and certain mysterious aspects of religion. They both seem to have had a firm conviction that intuition is an important way to true knowledge. When, in 1913, an artist friend of theirs, Henry Collison, introduced them to the thinking of Dr. Rudolf Steiner, their interest was easily kindled, and they became eager students of anthroposophy. They visited Dornach near Basel, the center of the anthroposophic movement, several times and made the personal acquaintance of Dr. Steiner. When an Anthroposophic Society was established in Finland in 1922, Uno Donner became its president. The library of the institute possesses an almost complete collection of Dr. Steiner's works and all available works of various anthroposophic authors.

scholarly journals The Scarab and Scaraboid Seals in the Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo

CLARA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Müller
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Common People ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The Common ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University

The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo is home to a small but fine ancient Egyptian collection. For my Magister thesis at the University of Heidelberg, I had the pleasure of conducting research on the 98 scarabs and scaraboid seals in the collection. The study focused on the bottom motifs and the multifunctional purposes for their owners as well as the important insights they provide into common religious beliefs in ancient Egyptian society. This short overview of the research conducted in Oslo presents all twelve attested bottom motifs and introduces the most remarkable objects in the collection. Covering a time span from the Twelfth Dynasty until the Late Period and most probably the Roman Period, the scarabs and scaraboid seals in the museum bear testimony to 2000 years of cultural history, providing fascinating details about the religious beliefs of the common people as well as demonstrating the importance of these objects in everyday life.

Performing National Identity in the Interwar Period: The Sarrasani Circus in Germany and Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-201
Author(s):  
Sabine Hanke
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
National Image ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

This article examines the production and promotion of popular entertainments by the German Sarrasani Circus during the interwar period and how they were used to establish specific national narratives in Germany and Latin America. Focusing particularly on its engagement of Lakota performers, it argues that the Circus acted as an active negotiator of national concerns within and beyond Germany’s borders, and presented the group as ‘familiar natives’ in order to appeal to local and national ideas of Germanness. At the same time, it shows that the performers pursued their own interests in becoming international and cosmopolitan performers, thereby challenging the assimilation forced upon their traditions and culture by institutions in the United States. Finally, it demonstrates how foreign propaganda built on the Circus’s national image in Latin America to restore Germany’s international relations after the First World War. Sabine Hanke is a lecturer in Modern History at the University of Duisberg-Essen. Her research examines the German and British interwar circus. She was recently awarded her PhD in cultural history, from which this article has evolved, at the University of Sheffield. A chapter based on her research is scheduled for publication in Circus Histories and Theories, ed. Nisha P.R. and Melon Dilip (Oxford University Press).

A Recent Acquisition of the University Museum, Philadelphia

1935 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Edith Hall Dohan
Keyword(s):  
University Museum ◽  
The University

Origin, evolution and paleoepidemiology of brucellosis

2010 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D'ANASTASIO ◽  
T. STANISCIA ◽  
M. L. MILIA ◽  
L. MANZOLI ◽  
L. CAPASSO
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Lumbar Vertebrae ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Australopithecus Africanus ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Important Disease

SUMMARYBrucellosis is a worldwide disease. Although it has been eradicated in some countries, it continues to be an important disease in many farming areas. Previous works have described the evolution and diffusion of brucellosis in antiquity through direct analysis of ancient human remains collected by the University Museum of Chieti, Italy, and by using paleopathological and historical data. The earliest published case was reported in a skeletal individual dated to the Middle Bronze Age. However, our research group has diagnosed vertebral brucellosis in the partial skeleton of the late Pliocene Australopithecus africanus, demonstrating that this infectious disease occasionally affected our direct ancestors 2·3–2·5 million years ago. The frequency of brucellosis increased during the Roman period, when the disease would almost certainly have been endemic in Roman society, and during the Middle Ages. Most paleopathological cases involve adult male skeletal individuals, and lumbar vertebrae and sacroiliac joints are most commonly involved.

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