ISBN10: 9774794834, ISBN13: 9789774794834, [publisher: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, Cairo] Softcover First Edition 360 pages, 29,5 x 20 cm, fine. - - Contents: Acknowledgments, Foreword. - 1. Shaltout/Belmonte: Introduction: under ancient Egyptian skies. - 2. Magdi Fekri: The historical background. - 3. M.A. Molinero Polo: Astronomical historiography in four movements. - 4. Juan Antonio Belmonte: The Egyptian calendar: keeping Ma'at on Earth. - 5. Rolf Krauss: Astronomical chronology. - 6. José Lull & J.A. Belmonte: The constellations of ancient Egypt. - 7. Belmonte/Molinero Polo/Miranda: Unveiling Seshat: new insights into the stretching of the chord ceremony. - 8. Belmonte/Shaltout/Fekri: Astronomy, landscape and symbolism: a study of the orientation of ancient Egyptian temples. - 9. Garcia/Belmonte/Shaltout: The orientation of royal tombs in ancient Egypt. - 10. Giulio Magli & J.A. Belmonte: Pyramids and stars, facts, conjectures and starry tales. - 11. Belmonte/Shaltout: Epilogue; I. Compared Chronology of ancient Egypt; II. Corpus Mensorarum (ancient Egyptian temples).
[Rostock, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
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