Archaeology and Ancient Egypt
English edition  
May  2010
360 pp.
Paperback
21X29.5 cm
$34.95
LE 150.00
ISBN
978 977 479 483 4

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In Search of Cosmic Order
Selected Essays on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy
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Edited by by Juan Antonio Belmonte
Mosalam Shaltout
Foreword by Zahi Hawass


This collection of studies by specialists in Egyptology and astronomy attempts to unlock some of the secrets of ancient Egyptian civilization. Among the subjects examined are the constellations of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian calendar, and landscape and symbolism, especially how they relate to the orientation of temples and royal tombs.

Juan Antonio Belmonte is project coordinator of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain. Mosalam Shaltout is professor of solar physics at the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt.




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