Lost Pages from Egyptian Book of the Dead Discovered

The last missing pages from a supposedly ‘magical’ Book of the Dead from an Egyptian priest, Amenhotep, have been found after a century-long search – in a museum in Queensland.

British Museum Egyptologist Dr John Taylor said he was ‘floored’ by the discovery of the 100 fragments.

It’s the end of a worldwide search by archaeologists for the papyrus scroll – which supposedly contains spells to guide spirits into the afterlife.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2132755/Last-pages-magical-Egyptian-Book-Dead-museum-Queensland–worldwide-search-archaeologists.html#ixzz1tBElf2q3

Fate Magazine Archives

The following pages contain various FATE Magazine articles by Loyd Auerbach that are available for download. The articles are unedited versions of selected, articles and many of the pieces that appeared in his column “Psychic Frontiers” from 1991 through the end of 2004.

Radiation and Man

Here is a lovely pro-nuclear comic book from 1972. Though it predates The Watchmen by more than a decade, check out the Doctor Manhattan-ish figure on the cover.

Old Cartoons Depicting Women as Cuts of Meat

Mitch O’Connell digs into his old-timey ephemera cornucopia to assemble a gallery of women depicted as slabs of beef ready to be butchered.

The Most Sexist Images EVER!

Deepest Terrestrial Animal Discovered in Cave

Scientists have discovered four new species of primitive eyeless insects, one of which they described as the deepest land animal ever found.

These animals are springtails (Arthropoda, Insecta, Collembola), a minute primitive wingless insect with six-legs and without eyes that commonly live in total darkness in caves, where they feed on fungi and decomposing organic matter.