An Artificial Toe On The Foot Of An Egyptian Mummy. ⠀ ⠀ The Prosthesis Made From Wood And Leather

An Artificial Toe on the Foot of an Egyptian Mummy. ⠀ ⠀ The prosthesis made from wood and leather appears to be the first of its kind, dating back somewhere to 1069 - 664 BC. It is believed to be from the foot of a woman, around 60 years of age, who lost her toe from complications due to diabetes.

More Posts from Chronicpotions and Others

chronicpotions

5 years ago

1K notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

Keep asking questions

177 notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

For the first time, scientists captured images of the human brain on LSD, with psychedelic results

Feeling "one with nature" or feeling the self "dissolve" is triggered when psychedelics shift the patterns of connectivity in the brain. When study participants on LSD reported experiencing their sense of self dissolve (what researchers called "ego dissolution"), a remarkable thing happened to their fMRI scans: The regions of the brain responsible for higher cognition lit up, suddenly becoming heavily "over-connected" with other networks in the brain that do not normally communicate with one another. The degree of connectivity correlated with the degree to which the person on LSD told the researchers they were feeling the borders between themselves and the rest of the world blur or fall away completely. It's important to remember, said Tagliazucchi, that when you've taken LSD and experience your "self" or your ego disappearing, it's an illusion; it's what happens when the brain temporarily reorganizes itself to change our perception. In fact, the brain is doing this all the time—mostly to help make our world comprehensible. For example, the brain filters out the veins that cross in front of the retina of our eyes so we see a clear picture not distorted by the veins. "So when we take psychedelics, we are, it could be said, replacing one illusion [with] another illusion. This might be difficult to grasp, but our study shows that the sense of self or 'ego' could also be part of this illusion," he said.

38 notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

10K notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

A papyrus containing spells and scenes from the Book of the Dead, created during the Ptolemaic period in Egypt (304-30 BCE). The Book of the Dead contains 192 spells, which were intended to help deceased people understand the universe or to protect them from harm in the afterlife.

{WHF} {HTE} {Medium}

103 notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

Pyramids of Giza

Amazing aerial view of Cairo and Giza with the Pyramids in a misty landscape.

Photo: Sebastien Nagy

1K notes View Post

chronicpotions

4 years ago

93 notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

The orbit of Venus and Earth

9K notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

Hi Guys Did Some Color Variations If Wanna Use As A Wallpaper Or Something! And A Black And White One

hi guys did some color variations if wanna use as a wallpaper or something! and a black and white one if you wanna color, i recommend using mspaint to color that’s how i colored and drew using that (it’s not transparent) that or you can multiply a layer on top on sai or something

1K notes View Post

chronicpotions

5 years ago

Exploring Hell… up for the challenge?

Venus is an EXTREME world, and we’re calling on YOU to help us explore it! NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for a possible future Venus rover.

With a surface temperature in excess of 840 degrees Fahrenheit and a surface pressure 92 times that of Earth, Venus can turn lead into a puddle and crush a nuclear-powered submarine with ease. While many missions have visited our sister planet, only about a dozen have made contact with the surface of Venus before succumbing to the oppressive heat and pressure after just about more than an hour.

The “Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover” challenge is seeking the public’s designs for a sensor that could be incorporated into the design concept. The winning sensor could be the primary mechanism by which the rover detects and navigates around obstructions.