🪐The astronomical ceilings of ancient Egypt
From the ceiling of Senmut’s tomb, with its stellar decans and the first major Egyptian astronomical catalogue, to the elaborate celestial depictions in the Ramesside tombs in the Valley of the Kings, right through to the cosmic figure of Nut in the Osireion at Abydos and the Dendera Zodiac — a Ptolemaic synthesis of Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek traditions — the lecture […]
