Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
Stimulated to historical introspection by the curiosity of nations that are, comparatively, mere children, Egypt is jealously digging herself up these days, under European leadership. Last week, led by Digger Cecil Firth, archaeologists of the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian government climbed up a stairway of 100 steps out of the rocky bowels of their land...
...Beethoven", writes Mr. Hale, "was profoundly impressed by Hindu and Egyptian religious thought." and in the Symphony program he quotes at some length passages which Beethoven transcribed from Hindu literature and from Egyptian temples and tombs. All this goes to prove precisely nothing at all; for all these quotations find a place in Catholic thought. Mr. Hale, like a great many other people, is unaware of the fact that Catholics believe that all great world faiths, possess part of the whole truth and that their principal tenets may be found in the all-embracing tenets of the Catholic Charch...
Like eager boys in a Hallowe'en cabbage patch, Dr. Arnold Sack's assistants at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, twisted the blackened heads off his Egyptian mummies so that he could better study them for traces of ancient afflictions. The oldest skulls, now weazened and leather-covered, showed teeth in perfect condition. People of 4,000 to 6,000 years ago ate coarse foods which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed...
...What degree of relationship existed between most of the Egyptian Pharoahs and their queens before marriage...