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Underwater Archaeology in the Nile

In this new video, underwater archaeological work to discover artefacts that are lying hidden in the Nile River, is covered.

Aswan is a town in Upper Egypt close to the border with the Sudan…
The area we are working in now used to be a market place, where people would come from the north and the south [...]

History and Hermits – The Desert Fathers of Egypt

This is a really good article at Heritage Keys. It gives some insight into the history, way of life, spirituality  and fate of the ancient Desert Fathers.

The Desert Fathers of ancient Egypt were some of the world’s first hermits. Despite the modern ideal of the hermit, these didn’t live in total isolation. However, they did live [...]

9 Ways to Know the Gospel of Christ Is True

John Piper recently listed these (originally from a Taste & See article) 9 Ways to Know the Gospel of Christ Is True:

1. Jesus Christ, as he is presented to us in the New Testament, and as he stands forth from all its writings, is too single and too great to have been invented so uniformly by [...]

Reassessing Artworks of Ancient Rome

The New York Times had this interesting article.

ROME — Painting was more prized than sculpture by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and easel paintings more than frescoes, which were considered essentially decorative. Yet not a single easel painting of the kind described by Pliny the Elder in his encyclopedic “Natural History” of the first century [...]