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34. G. A. Wainwright, “Seshat and the Pharaoh,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 26 (1941): 30–40. 35. E. C. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 212. 36. Wainwright, “Seshat and the Pharaoh.” 37. Anne-Sophie Bomhard, The Egyptian Calendar: A Work for Eternity (London: Periplus, 1998), 4. 38. George Hart, A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (London: Rout-ledge and Kegan Paul, 1988), 193. 39. I. E. S. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt (London: Penguin, 1982), 249–50. 40. Martin Isler quoting R. W. Stoley, “Primitive Methods of Measuring Time with Special Reference to Egypt,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1931), 41. Z. Zaba, L’Orientation Astronomique Dans L’Ancienne Egypte et la Precession de l’Axe du Monde (Prague: n.p., 1953), 58–59. 42. See R. Bauval, The Egypt Code (London: Century Books, 2006) and T. Brophy, The Origin Map (Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, 2002). 43. Anne-Sophie Bomhard, The Egyptian Calendar: A Work for Eternity, 2. 44. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temples of Karnak, (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2001), 1. 45. Jean Kerisel, The Nile and Its Masters: Past, Present, Future Source of Hope and Anger (Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 2001), 37. 46. Donald B. Redford, ed., The Ancient Gods Speak (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 254. 47. Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997), 29. 48. A. Chapman, Gods in the Sky: Astronomy from the Ancients to the Renaissance (London: Channel 4 Books, 2002), 32–33. 49. Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, 28. 50. Lucie Lamy, Egyptian Mysteries (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981), 48. 51. R. Bauval, “A Master Plan for the Three Pyramids of Giza Based on the Configuration of the Three Stars of the Belt of Orion,” Discussions in Egyptology 13 (1989), pp. 7–19. 52. Herodotus, The Histories, Book II: 18–24. 53. Wilkinson, The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, 45. 54. See also Richard Parker, The Calendars of Ancient Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950). For a recent discussion on the Sothic Cycle, see Paul Jordan, Riddles of the Sphinx (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 35–37. 55. Robert Burnham Jr., Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, vol. 1 (New York: Dover Publications, 1978), 387. 56. Ibid. 57. E. C. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), 22. 58. R. W. Sloley, “Primitive Methods of Measuring Time, with Special Reference to Egypt,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1930): 167. 59. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies, 23. 60. Censorinus, De Die Natali, translated by Holt N. Parker (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2007). 61. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson, London 1978, p. 27. 62. Ibid., 263. 63. Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, 29. 64. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt, 284, 286. 65. G. J. Whitrow, Time in History: View of Time from Prehistory to the Present Day (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 26. 66. Stephen Quirke, The Cult of Ra (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), 116.
67. Nathalie Beaux, “Sirius étoile et Jeune Horus,” Hommages a Jean Leclant, Insitute Français D’Archéologie Orientale, Biblitheque D’Etude 106, no. 1 (1993). 68. Francis A. Cunningham, “The Sothic Cycle Used by the Egyptians,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 34 (1915): 369–73. 69. Ibid. 70. M. F. Ingham, “The Length of the Sothic Cycle,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 55 (1969): 36–40. 71. Jaromir Malek and John Baines, The Cultural Atlas of the World: Ancient Egypt (Alexandria, Va.: Stonehenge, 1991), 36. 72. Juan Belmonte, “Some Open Questions on the Egyptian Calendar: An Astronomer’s View,” Trabajos de Egyptologia, no. 2 (2003): 10. 73. Wilkinson, The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, 37. See also Jaroslav Cerny, “The Temple as an Abbreviated Name for the Temple of Medinet Habu,” in JEA 26 (1940), p. 127. 74. Krupp, Echoes of Ancient Skies, 258. 75. Baines and Malek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt (New York: Facts on File Publications, 1980), 112. 76. For a full discussion on the Followers of Horus, see Bauval and Hancock, Keeper of Genesis (London: Heinemann, 1996). 77. H. Brugsch, Egypt (n.p., 1891), 189, quoted by Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, 204–5. 78. Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, 204–5. 79. Wilkinson, The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt, 205. 80. Pyramid Texts, line 351. 81. Ian Shaw and Paul Nicholson, The Illustrated Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2008), 112. 82. Pyramid Texts, Utterance 263. 83. Ibid., line 865. 84. Ibid., lines 351–53. 85. Ibid., lines 1000–1001. 86. Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 90. 87. Thomas Brophy, The Origin Map (Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, 2002), 15–18. 88. A. Mariette, Denderah: Description Generale du grand temple de cette Ville, vol. 1, Paris-Cairo: n.p., 1875) 142, 263. 89. Beaux “Sirius, Etoile et Jeune Horus,” 64, note 14. 90. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies, 257. 91. Ibid., 258. 92. Ibid. 93. Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, 193. 94. Ibid., 200. 95. Mariette, Denderah, 206. See also Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, 194. 96. Z. Zaba, L’Orientation Astronomique dans L’Ancienne Egypte et la Precession de l’axe du monde (Prague: n.p., 1953), 59. 97. Private correspondence with Robert Bauval, October 8, 1986. 98. Sylvie Cauville-Colin, “Le Temple D’Isis a Dendera,” Bulletin de la Societe Francaise d’Egyptologie 123 (March 1992): 31–48. 99. Lehner, The Complete Pyramids, 120.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book was not a
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More Mysteries at Nabta Playa The S
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INTRODUCTION ANCIENT EGYPT REBORN N
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1 STRANGE STONES In Nabta there are
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desert” emerge from the surroundi
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stage the CPE anthropologists were
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arguments—and especially on the B
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This time, some archaeologists took
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who’s who of famous men: it inclu
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huge rocky massif sprouting out of
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Almasy planned an expedition to Gil
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of Setu and Irtet after having expl
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Sahara, and their bones were brough
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Djedefre Water Mountain, as Bergama
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Figure 2.5. Abu Ballas Pottery Hill
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can imagine how these scholars felt
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followed by the same determinative
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The surface of the now-covered bedr
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indeed, one of the main objectives
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In addition to tumuli tombs of catt
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since fallen. The largest ones were
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ALIGNMENTS TOWARD THE STARS: WHEN A
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elated not only to the gates of the
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dates within thousands of years of
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the largest stone. Again, the dista
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thus sent in an order to Quickbird
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Finally, to our relief, the light f
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degrees and azimuth 22.5 degrees an
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associated with the heleical rising
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ight angle. After that date, Nabta
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also note that several megalithic a
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ceremonial complex of Nabta Playa.
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have been placed by humans, possibl
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5 THE BIBLE, THE HAMITES, AND THE B
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Even allowing that scholars tend to
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egions: the Nile Valley and the vas
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perspective. We must also acknowled
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Plate 2. Djedefre Water Mountain, c
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Plate 8. Robert Bauval with herder
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Plate 15. Models of cows, Eleventh
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Plate 22. The rock-cut tomb of Hark
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wagging tail. We found them on the
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BCE to 2500 BCE. What she found odd
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eassure us that all is not lost, af
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Figure 5.3. Numerous prehistoric ha
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themselves, our drivers uttered a b
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arely kill their cattle for food ex
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to study the stars, perhaps even na
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pointed star, which represents Siri
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In the first century, some half-cen
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