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At the event tonight, Zahi did speak about the doors and mentioned that he has been working with a team of robotics experts with a new robot design. He said that more will be announced early June.
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Congratulations Alex - as always, a well researched paper.
I have a comment about the flood dates you used. I recently attended a lecture by John Burn where he presented an idea that perhaps Egyptologists have considered the flood as being more regular than it was in reality. He spoke about river ecology and the effects on plant and animal life and correlated those expected events to art scen
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I am attending a lecture by Hawass later this month billed as a "fascinating deep dive into the history of Egypt" I wonder if the doors will feature in the lecture at all.
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Thanks Alex - this clarifies my questions. Your proposal regarding the rib days is quite intriguing.
Regards,
Brendan
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Thanks, Brendan!
> I withdraw my question; it turns out that
> Egyptologists have not yet examined this problem
> in detail. Strange omission.
I finally had a chance to read your paper and found it very interesting. I had some questions when reading it:
On pp100-101, when discussing the dnjt separated b
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Congratulations on the publication Alex! Your question to me the other day makes sense now It is great to see you also received assistance from Hermione. I will read the paper over the next few days.
Regards,
Brendan
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Professor Dr Joachim Quack's paper which discusses linear zig zag functions has been published and is available from the following URL:
The relevant discussion on linear zigzag functions starts on page 79 but there is significant context set in the preceding pages. The zig zag functions Quack has identified are all related to the hours of the day and night. It is an interesting read fro
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Somewhat serendipitously, a recent post of mine was moved to the Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals forum. As I haven't looked at the posts in that forum, I noticed this post by Hermione announcing a paper by Joachim Quack:
In the paper, Quack writes on p65 “Beginning in the New Kingdom and attested still in copies dating from the 2nd century CE, there are examples of linear
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I am not sure what I just watched ... I was looking forward to the questions but for some reason they didn't seem to be included.
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Forum readers may be interested in the following paper:
Quiles A, Sowada K, Kanawati N. DATING THE END OF THE EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM: NEW CONTEXTUALIZED DATES FROM THE REIGN OF KING PEPY II. Radiocarbon. 2023:1-18. doi:10.1017/RDC.2023.94
Available as an open access here:
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Do we expect as an outcome a fourth door?
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I agree the content is excellent. I think it helps to remember the original target audience was for students of a course rather than the general population.
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This video was part of the coursework for the course "Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology" on Edx:
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GChase Wrote:
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> Hi Brendan,
> Thanks for your encouragement.
> I have just now read your paper that you linked.
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> The references to the Bull of the Skies may be
> those of Mesktui, whose identity the King assumes
> after its sacrifice.
> Regarding West, the King visited the four cardinal
> directions
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Hi Graham,
I investigated a similar but different idea of a link between Saturn and the design of the Great Pyramid a couple of years ago: . I think there may be some merit to your overall idea that the requirements of the Heb Sed festival drive pyramid design. I would encourage you to continue to refine your idea and its context. It would be very helpful to your readers to see a bibliograph
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GChase Wrote:
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> Thanks for the link. I have read this analysis and
> a number of others.
> There is in all of them a problem identifying the
> standing man, depicted above touching Ursa Major
> and standing on Ursa Minor.
> If he wore crowns there would be no problem, he
> would be the deceased Seti I.
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&g
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GChase Wrote:
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> Here is the ceiling from the tomb of Seti I
> showing his Heb Sed :
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> The two halves of the vaulted ceiling illustrated
> the northern half of the sky (bottom) and the
> southern half of the sky (top). The Hed Sed
> hieroglyph was shown on the left of register above
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GChase Wrote:
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> This website might help :
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> h = 75c (the length of the ascending passage
> right through to the north side of the descending
> passage)
> c2 = 2.9 (the 'missing' floor at the bottom across
> the descending passage.
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> So the length of the actual floor of the
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I beleive the 75 comes from Legon: in figure 1. Legon makes clear this comes from Petrie's survey data on p62.
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Here is the paper from their discovery, including some photos at the end of the colourful decoration of Khuwy's tomb:
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Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> Half sky objects were part of the Heb Sed ritual.
> A pair of half-sky signs combined with Shen-signs
> occur among objects depicted on the interior of
> the Middle Kingdom inner coffin of Seni. Above the
> signs is a hieratic label naming them mdnbw wsxt.
> "The word mdnbw is probab
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There has been some exciting discoveries by Czech archeologists over the past few years. I recently attended a conference where Hana Vymazalová and Mohamed Megahed of Charles University in Prague were presenting. After a full day of presentations, their final presentation was on the discovery of the tomb of Khuwy, a dignitary of the late 5th Dynasty. Each of their presentations was fascinating in
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The main issue is that many people (myself included) rely on translations rather than the source material. Translation in general introduces scope for error and misinterpretation. Even Allen's translation despite his attempts to provide a modern, up to date translation has controversial elements in it. This is somewhat opaque as Allen does not offer full APA or Harvard style references and o
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I was suggesting Saturn rather than Mars as Saturn is generally styled "Horus, bull of the sky". There are authors that have suggested a link between the Heb Sed and Saturn, including:
Lurker, M., The gods and symbols of Ancient Egypt: an illustrated dictionary, Thames and Hudson, 1980 p13: “The fact that the festival took place thirty years after the accession could be based on the
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Hi GChase,
You may find the article that Zahi Hawass wrote on the discovery of the Pyramidion of the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu interesting:
I also would point you to Degreef, who has published on the Heb Sed more recently:
Finally, I wondered if you'd considered the other "bull of the sky" in Saturn?
Regards
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Thank you Hermione for bringing this article to the forum's attention. Quack has synthesised the current state of the academic world's knowledge of the ancient Egyptians knowledge of the planets. It is well referenced, structured logically and Quack has presented arguments for and against possible attestations of planets. I first read this article several years ago and it has since bec
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Congratulations Alex! The original was a paper worthy of publishing, I will download and read the updated paper shortly.
Regards,
Brendan
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It is a very detailed paper written by experts in the field. The authors Juan Antonio Belmonte and José Lull García published a book in January. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the book yet but here is what Springer (their publisher) says about them:
QuoteSpringer,2023
Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés is Research Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spai
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Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> > pp185-187 of the following paper:
> > Lull, Jose, and Juan Antonio Belmonte. "The
> constellations of ancient Egypt." Search of cosmic
> > order: Selected essays on Egyptian
> archaeoast
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