An ancient Egyptian papyrus, known equally the Cairo Calendar, could survive the oldest historical tape of a star's brightness, providing a novel perspective on the evolution of the Algol triple star organization over thousands of years.
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| Page from the Cairo Calendar: within the superimposed rectangle is the hieratic writing for the give-and-take Horus. A passage inwards this document dates it to the reign of Ramses II inwards the Nineteenth Dynasty |
[Credit: L, Jetsu et al. 2015] Known equally the Calendar of Lucky as well as Unlucky Days, the Cairo Calendar, dated from 1244 – 1163 BC, assigns predictions as well as prognoses to every solar daytime of the Egyptian year. These prognoses signal whether the day, or business office of the day, is considered "good" or "bad". The calendar too contains information regarding the day's astronomical observations, such equally the demeanour of astronomical objects, peculiarly Algol.
Now researchers tell that the astronomical symbolism discovered inwards the 2 most Ancient Egyptian myths advise like clues could survive constitute inwards other ancient Egyptian texts.
The article, published inwards De Gruyter's magazine Open Astronomy, looks at how the legends of the Egyptian deities Horus as well as Set were used inwards the calendar. The deities depict the demeanour of astronomical objects, specifically, the naked oculus observations of the variable three-star organization Algol.
However, adjacent to naught is known almost who recorded Algol's catamenia into the Cairo Calendar, nor how. The authors present how the ancient Egyptian scribes introduce celestial phenomena equally the activeness of gods, which reveals why Algol received the championship of Horus.
The report presents 10 arguments which present that the ancient Egyptian scribes, known equally the "hour-watchers" had the possible way as well as motives to tape the catamenia of Algol inwards the Cairo Calendar.
"The regain of Algol's variability would convey to survive dated to thousands of years before than has been previously known. The star would convey been a business office of ancient Egyptian mythology equally a shape of the god Horus," said report writer Sebastian Porceddu from the University of Helsinki.
Source: De Gruyter [November 12, 2018]
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Now researchers tell that the astronomical symbolism discovered inwards the 2 most Ancient Egyptian myths advise like clues could survive constitute inwards other ancient Egyptian texts.
The article, published inwards De Gruyter's magazine Open Astronomy, looks at how the legends of the Egyptian deities Horus as well as Set were used inwards the calendar. The deities depict the demeanour of astronomical objects, specifically, the naked oculus observations of the variable three-star organization Algol.
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| Algol [Credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg/SIMBAD] |
The report presents 10 arguments which present that the ancient Egyptian scribes, known equally the "hour-watchers" had the possible way as well as motives to tape the catamenia of Algol inwards the Cairo Calendar.
"The regain of Algol's variability would convey to survive dated to thousands of years before than has been previously known. The star would convey been a business office of ancient Egyptian mythology equally a shape of the god Horus," said report writer Sebastian Porceddu from the University of Helsinki.
Source: De Gruyter [November 12, 2018]
Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
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