Back from the Dead: Ancient Guide to Afterlife

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Egyptian scrolls hidden in the British Museum’s vaults for two centuries are finally seeing the light of day.

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-ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DOOR TO THE AFTERLIFE-

-DENVER AIRPORT ERECTS ANUBIS STATUE-

A Leap in the Dark

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Paradoxically, a shadow can go even faster than light! We can [cast a shadow] first at one star and then toward another star. We can take two stars more or less the same distance from Earth, such as Acrux in the Southern Cross and Bellatrix in Orion (both are 360 light-years away from us). We point the flashlight at Acrux and then we make the beam slide slowly toward Bellatrix. Three hundred sixty years later, the shadow … (which will at this point have become huge and very fast) will reach Acrux, and just a few seconds later it will be at Bellatrix, after having crossed one quarter of the vault of the sky far faster than the speed of light. Can shadows do things that are physically impossible?

– Roberto Casati, Shadows, 2000

Insanely Intricate Eggshell Art

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It’s all too easy to accidentally poke a hole into an eggshell – but few people can do it in such a controlled way that it can be called art. Slovenian artist Franc Grom turns these incredibly delicate objects into diminutive, stunningly precise and detailed eggshell sculptures with a steady hand, a sharp eye and a tiny electric drill.

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