Egypt
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
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Egypt Exploration Society With photos. Professor Sarah Symons of the Integrated Science Programme & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University, Hanilton, Ontario recently visited the Society's London offices to study some of the unpublished...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
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- Conference News: Egyptian Symposium In Toronto
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus promises a detailed report on the symposium but in the meantime he has bullet pointed some of the key points of interest. There are several fascinating items but the one that most interested me were some of the results...
- Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
Innovations Report (Jiro Kondo) The constellations we are currently familiar with originate from “Ptolemy’s 48 constellations” compiled from ancient Greek constellations by Claudius Ptolemaeus (from 90 A.D. to about 168 A.D.). He was a Greek astronomer...
- Saturday Trivia
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Egypt
Astronomical interest in the Big Dipper
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus)
New research on a 2,400 year old star table shows that the Ancient Egyptians kept close tabs on the Big Dipper, monitoring changes in the constellation’s orientation throughout the course of an entire year.
The Big Dipper is composed of seven stars and is easily viewable in the northern hemisphere. Its shape looks like a ladle with a scoop attached. Ancient Egyptians represented it as an ox’s foreleg.
If a person were to observe the constellation at the exact same time every night they would see it gradually move counter-clockwise each time they saw it.
Professor Sarah Symons, of McMaster University in Hamilton Canada, carried out the new research.
- Searching For Fragments Of An Astronomical Ceiling
Egypt Exploration Society With photos. Professor Sarah Symons of the Integrated Science Programme & Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University, Hanilton, Ontario recently visited the Society's London offices to study some of the unpublished...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Conference News: Egyptian Symposium In Toronto
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus promises a detailed report on the symposium but in the meantime he has bullet pointed some of the key points of interest. There are several fascinating items but the one that most interested me were some of the results...
- Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
Innovations Report (Jiro Kondo) The constellations we are currently familiar with originate from “Ptolemy’s 48 constellations” compiled from ancient Greek constellations by Claudius Ptolemaeus (from 90 A.D. to about 168 A.D.). He was a Greek astronomer...
- Saturday Trivia
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/sports/outdoors/14556294.htmThere's only one piece of trivia today. This is to be found in a meteorology piece about the constellation Coma Berenices, and contains the piece of trivia knowledge that Coma Berenices...