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...
- 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...
- Cairo From A Café
The Hindu (Savtej Sarna) A brief experience of Mahfouz country, though the café he used to frequent is no more, having given way to change… The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their...
- Pyramid Pioneers Were Spot On
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1699645.htm"Archaeologists who measured the Egyptian pyramids at Giza more than 100 years ago were surprisingly accurate, a review of historical surveys has shown. The paper, posted online by the Queensland...
- Portents, Signs And Prophecy
Portents, Signs and Prophecy I'll be honest, I'm...
Egypt
Orion returns to claim stake in night sky
http://tinyurl.com/7cj8t (Morning News Online, Florence, South Carolina)
Astronomy article discussing what is visible in the night sky, with a brief mention of the Giza pyramids in the context of the Orion's Belt constellation: "A string of first and second magnitude stars make up Orion’s 'belt' that, according to one theory, could have been the inspiration behind the grouping of three pyramids at Giza in Egypt. These pyramids are angled along a line similar to the way the belts stars are. Ironically, the first two are the same size while the third is smaller and slightly offset from the other two, just like the stars themselves.Both Alnitak and Alnilam shine at an identical 1.7 magnitude, but the third star, Mintaka is a bit dimmer at 2.2 magnitude. Is it a cosmic coincidence or was it really an ancient civilization’s attempt to mimic the heavens?"
- 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...
- 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...
- Cairo From A Café
The Hindu (Savtej Sarna) A brief experience of Mahfouz country, though the café he used to frequent is no more, having given way to change… The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their...
- Pyramid Pioneers Were Spot On
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1699645.htm"Archaeologists who measured the Egyptian pyramids at Giza more than 100 years ago were surprisingly accurate, a review of historical surveys has shown. The paper, posted online by the Queensland...
- Portents, Signs And Prophecy
Portents, Signs and Prophecy I'll be honest, I'm...