Giulio Magli, Architecture, Astronomy and Sacred Landscape in Ancient This book is available and is a good source book for text and translations

Marshall Clagett, Ancient Egyptian Science, a Source Book: Volume Ii,Ĭalendars, Clocks and Astronomy (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995). The Pyramid Texts translated by Samuel Mercer 1952, Decans, Planets, Constellations and Zodiacs, (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1969). The Ramesside Star Clocks, (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1964). The Early Decans, (Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press, 1960). Otto Neugebauer, and Parker, Egyptian Astronomical Texts. PLEASE NOTE: These webex will not be recorded. It will begin with the pyramids of the Old Kingdom and carry through to the Hellenistic period and the implications of the Dendera Zodiac. This short course is designed to introduce you to the Egyptian sky with its mythic, religious as well as civil role in Egyptian society. However later by the Hellenistic period the Dendera Zodiac shows that the Egyptian sky became mixed and finally consumed by the Hellenistic view of the heavens. By the New Kingdom the astronomy is revealed in the innovations of the Ramesside star clocks and great astronomical ceilings of that period.

It is through the material evidence of the Coffin Text which reveals that this cultural astronomy moved into the Middle Kingdom period where the soul sought to join with the stars to reach for immortality. The Pyramid Text of the Old Kingdom, reveal an astronomy which blended naked-eye observations of the heavens with religious beliefs and aspirations of the individuals of the Old Kingdom. The material evidence of Egypt leaves us with many tantalising clues concerning their astronomy and its role in Egyptian culture. All those registered will receive a link to the seminar room via email earlier on the day of a seminar

When:Three Wednesday Seminars at 19:00 - 21:00 GMTĢ5 November, 2 December and the 9 December

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