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For parents considering purchasing a balance bike, the biggest concern is value. Balance bikes can be slightly more expensive than a traditional pedal bike and the perception is that because they don't have pedals, the bikes will not last. Parents are afraid that their son or daughter will quickly outgrow this learning bike. It's true that your child will quickly develop their balance and motor skills and be ready to transition to a pedal bike, but our experience is that kid's enjoy their... Read Full Story

A Buddha statue can be used as both a decorative accent and an aid in meditation.. They symbolizie Buddhism's founder,Siddhartha Gautama who taught us that by eliminating all desires from our lives we are able to reach Nirvana. This is a state of existence where suffering does not exist. Achieving a state of nirvana ends the cycle of death and rebirth. The key to achieving that Nirvana is mental discipline and the ability to comprehend and follow the eightfold path. Buddha statues come in a... Read Full Story

A Buddha statue can be used as both a decorative accent and an aid in meditation.. They symbolizie Buddhism’s founder,Siddhartha Gautama who taught us that by eliminating all desires from our lives we are able to reach Nirvana. When the state of nirvana is achieved all suffering ends. When one has achieved Nirvana the cycle of rebirth and death ends. The key to achieving that Nirvana is mental discipline and the ability to comprehend and follow the eightfold path. Buddha statues come in a... Read Full Story

A Buddha statue can be used as both a decorative accent and an aid in meditation.. They symbolizie Buddhism’s founder,Siddhartha Gautama who taught us that by eliminating all desires from our lives we are able to reach Nirvana. When the state of nirvana is achieved all suffering ends. When one has achieved Nirvana the cycle of rebirth and death ends. The key to achieving that Nirvana is mental discipline and the ability to comprehend and follow the eightfold path. Buddha statues come in a... Read Full Story

The Abhaya Mudra is referred to as the “dispelling fear pose.”   in Sanskrit the word means ‘fearlessness’ and this pose or mudra is one of the most common Buddha statue poses.   It symbolizes peace and protection and is thought to ward off fear and danger. This pose is achieved extending the right arm. In the dispelling fear mode draw, the home of the hand faces out at shoulder height and the arm is slightly bent.This Buddhist symbol of courage emphasizes the spiritual power of the Buddha... Read Full Story

This one's interesting.  Looks like they're going to be doing a DNA test on King Tut to determine his lineage.  Not sure why we care at this point, but when it comes to King Tut, I'm down for anything.  Read the full story at  Yahoo News One of the great remaining mysteries of ancient Egypt , the lineage of the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, may soon be solved, the country's antiquities supremo hinted on Sunday. Zahi Hawass told AFP he has scheduled a news conference for February 17 in the Cairo... Read Full Story

Food supplies were plentiful in ancient Egypt. Egyptians were very much dependent on the yearly flooding of the Nile to produce a fertile land in which famine was rare. Scenes of animal husbandry and butchery, were a fixture on the walls of Egyptian tombs. No less rare, are scemes of fishing and fishermen along with images and hieroglyphs about the preparation of fish for eating, and images of birds and foul being plucked and preserved. In ancient Egyptian art , the preparation of food is a... Read Full Story

In an article translated from the German language magazine Speigel, the author suggests that Howard Carter and his team made away with a considerable amount of ill-gotten treasure, many of which sit in museums across the Western world today. Ancient Tomb Robbers?   What's known for sure is that the Metropolitan Museum of Art alone contains around 20 objects presumed to have originated from KV 62, Tutankhamun's tomb . These include a small dog made of ivory, a gazelle, rings, a splendid... Read Full Story

In Mesopotamia hunting had an important symbolic value. This was especially true in Assyria, evidence by the dozens of artistic depictions of the Royal Hunt in stone relief . The Royal Hunt was an important ritual that established the Kings domain over brute nature, and demonstrated his courage. By participating in the Royal Hunt, the King added to his own prestige and a heroic reputation.  Even though we might expect some exaggeration of the events, the reliefs that have been discovered... Read Full Story

This lens discusses the various poses seen in Buddha statues known as Mudras. Each Mudra has a religious and symbolic meaning and is associated with the Buddha's teachings or path to enlightenment. Read Full Story