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The Celestial River: Identifying the Ancient Egyptian Constellations , SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS, 253 (December 2014), Victor H. Mair, Editor, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Univ. of P...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/ancient-egypt-stellar-constellations.html

The Eye of Horus is marked in the stars at Abydos to represent the eternal celestial eye at the North Celestial Pole. This decipherment is more or less indisputable, given our previous postings. ...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-eye-of-horus-at-abydos-marks-stars.html

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE CORRECTED THE COORDINATES FOR THE BASE GOOGLE EARTH IMAGE IN THE PREVIOUS POSTING! (CORRECTED APRIL 12, 2019) THE CORRECT COORDINATES FOR THE IMAGE MADE NOVEMBER 7, 20...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/abydos-correction-of-google-earth.html

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE CORRECTED THE COORDINATES FOR THE BASE GOOGLE EARTH IMAGE! (APRIL 12, 2019) THE CORRECT COORDINATES FOR THE IMAGE MADE NOVEMBER 7, 2018 ARE: Google Earth 26°10'01.38N ...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/abydos-ground-plan-as-astronomy-proved.html

QUESTION: Why have we titled this posting "Abydos Boats, Umm El-Qaab, KKB, Kochab, Stars, Cepheus, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, Draco and the Mother of Pots of Mainstream Bad Archaeology L...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/abydos-boats-umm-el-qaab-kochab-stars.html

In our previous posting titled Abydos Boats and Enclosures Mark the Stars of Cepheus, One of the Argonauts Immortalized in the Stars: Are These The Boats of Jason and his Minyans? we showed t...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-abydos-boats-docked-in-harbor-of.html

We have a new decipherment -- the Abydos Boats and Enclosures, which we have found to mark the stars of Cepheus, as follows in the graphic below. By tradition, Cepheus is regarded to have been on...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/abydos-boats-and-enclosures-mark-stars.html

Eleanor Imster at Human World in EarthSky.org reports on the use of prehistoric cave art in ancient astronomy. See Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy .

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/earthskyorg-reports-on-prehistoric-cave.html

The latest news from the University of Edinburgh headlines that Cave paintings reveal use of complex astronomy , reporting that: > "Some of the world’s oldest cave paintings have reve...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/ancient-cave-paintings-are-astronomy-is.html

We have always thought that the most logical topographically-determined path for the "Out of Africa" sojourn of humanity was via Egypt and the Nile and then along the shores of the Mediterranean...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-out-of-africa-migration-was-via.html

We are pleased to report that a "new translation" of the Ahmose Tempest Stela by Nadine Moeller and Robert Ritner -- in our opinion CORRECTLY -- resurrects the clear and logical connection betwe...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ahmose-tempest-stela-in-new.html

What is the origin of the dhow sailing vessel? See the nice photo of the dhow at Compass - Yahoo Travel at Flickr Photo of the Day at Echoes of Sinbad the sailor See in this general conte...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/ancient-sea-navigation-and-dhow-sailing.html

In previous postings at Land Survey Corner Stones of Ancient Egypt and Arabia: Sais (Sa al Hajar, Rosetta Stone), Nabta Playa (Table Rock Stone), Mecca (Kaaba), Dumat Al-Jandal (Missing Stone)  ...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-standing-stones-megaliths-of-al.html

In our most recent previous posting we presented the alleged Four Corner Stones of a Land Survey in Ancient Egypt and Arabia: Sais (Sa al Hajar, Rosetta Stone), Nabta Playa (Table Rock Stone), M...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/sais-champollion-rosetta-stone-and.html

The image below shows that an ancient land survey of Ancient Egypt and Arabia was "anchored" in the Predynastic Era of Egypt (we estimate 3400 B.C.) by FOUR MASSIVE CORNER STONES that survive tod...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/land-survey-corner-stones-of-ancient.html

Ancient Egypt News: Telegraph writes and with video that Egypt reopens ancient tombs after renovation : At the Huffington Post, Ted Thornhill has a posting with pictures at Egypt Reopens Renova...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/egyptian-antiquities-ministry-reopens.html

The Uluburun Shipwreck is slowly -- and rightly -- changing many of the false conceptions that mainstream scholars have been propagating erroneously over the years about the ancient world, especi...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/zannanza-and-egyptian-queen-uluburun.html

Tom L. Freudenheim at the Wall Street Journal online WSJ.com in Ancient Egypt's Limber Youth reports on the exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Ci...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/exhibition-dawn-of-egyptian-art-at.html

Nearly 6000 (!) artifacts in this tomb, gold and riches beyond comprehension, and in all the remaining tombs of Ancient Egypt of its many great Pharaohs, its illustrious kings and queens, not any...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/howard-carter-138th-birthday-honored-by.html

Andrew Robinson at Nature magazine goes to the heart of who deciphered the hieroglyphs at A clash of symbols .

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/who-deciphered-hieroglyphs.html

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https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/ancient-signs-alphabet-and-origins-of.html

As written at Ashmolean Museum: News & Events > "The Ashmolean is delighted to announce the opening date of the new > galleries of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (present day Sud...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/ashmolean-museum-oxford-opens-new.html

Talk about good timing.... Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Tickets at De Young Museum, 2/25/2010 - SF Gate : > "This exhibit will feature more than 130 artifacts from t...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutankhamun-and-golden-age-of-pharaohs.html

Tutankhamun and "Where the Great Akhenaten Lies" : Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) Zahi Hawass reports on the great discovery made regarding the identification of Akhenaten among the mummies...

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutankhamun-and-where-great-akhenaten.html

The Egyptian Chronicles is the name of an electronic monthly magazine with one of its features on Ancient Egyptian History.

https://ancientegyptweblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/egyptian-chronicles.html