Posted on 08/19/2018 3:48:36 PM PDT by ETL
Ptahmes was Mayor of Memphis and high-ranking official under the Pharaohs Sethi I and Ramses II (1290-1213 BC) of the XIX dynasty.
His tomb is located in the south of the Causeway of the Pharaoh Unas which yields a number of tombs dated to the New Kingdom.
It was rediscovered in 2010 after a part of it was revealed in 1885 and lost under the sands at the end of the 19th century.
During the 2013/2014 excavation season, Cairo University archeologists found broken jars at the site.
One jar contained a solidified whitish mass, as well as canvas fabric that might have covered the jar or been used to preserve its contents.
A research team led by University of Catania archaeologist Enrico Greco wanted to analyze the whitish substance to determine its identity.
After dissolving the sample, the scientists purified its protein constituents and analyzed them with liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
The peptides detected by these techniques show the constituting material was a dairy product obtained by mixing sheep/goat and cow milk.
The characteristics of the canvas fabric, which indicate it was suitable for containing a solid rather than a liquid, and the absence of other specific markers, support the conclusion that the dairy product was a solid cheese, the researchers said.
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Do they Know
That Ancient Question?
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Who Cut the Cheese?
Yeah and it has brucellosis in it.
This potentially deadly disease spreads from animals to people, typically from eating unpasteurized dairy products.
Neat article, but I didn’t realize that this ‘back-to-nature’ crap dated back so far. I don’t care what the Left says, I want my dairy products Pasteurized!
All the best cheeses are well aged.
“It’s a bit runny.”
“I like it runny.”
Cheese it! The Copts!
So much so that they set aside space to age cheese for 20 years, and sold that for a huge profit as well, just a couple of years ago.
Don't know if they have any other wheels aging.
I think it’s more runny than you’d like, sir...
I don’t care how excrementally runny it is. Hand it over!
A patron in a New York diner ordered a pork chop au gratin.
The waitress yelled, “Cheese it, the chops!”
;^)
was really just a jug of milk left a bit too long in the back of an ancient refrigerator
And it still smells better than Hillary’s underdinkies
For sh!ts and giggles I just watched the utube Cheese Shop skit. It’s still very clever and humorous after all of these years.
It wasn’t an individually-wrapped single slice was it? I hate those things.
Everyone hates those.
They taste like mush and plastic was fused into squares.
Anyone who finds one in their lunch should consider it an assassination attempt.
As I wrote before, they have NOT looked in my refrigerator!
Best response I've ever gotten.
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