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| Publisher | Springer International Publishing AG |
| ISBN 13 | 9783031118289 |
| ISBN 10 | 3031118286 |
| Book Description | This book is a comprehensive reference on ancient Egyptian astronomy, one of the most important topics in historical astronomy. |
| About the Author | Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés is Research Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain) where he investigates exoplanetsand cultural astronomy. He has published or edited nearly twenty books and authored more than  200 publications on those subjects. He has been the president of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) from 2005 to 2011, and of the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC) from  2017 to 2020, and is the current president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Commission C4 “World Heritage and Astronomyâ€. In 2012 he received the "Carlos Jaschek" award of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture for his contributions to the discipline. He has performed extensive research on the astronomical traditions of ancient civilizations, concentrating in the ancient Mediterranean cultures, notably in Egypt.José Lull GarcÃa studied Egyptology at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is a specialist in history and chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, as well as in ancient Egyptian astronomy. He is currently a researcher at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IEPOA) and lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He has written several books on Egyptology and more than one hundred articles published in scientific and outreach journals. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Jose Lull |
| Publication Date | 2023-04-04 |
| Number of Pages | 588 pages |
Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective
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