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Ove von Spaeth
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History and Knowledge:
Rediscovery, Insight, Renewal |
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The Oldest Egyptian
Star Map * The Senmut Map |
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Ancient Dating Information
Decoded |
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The following, a presentation of discovered data in the world's oldest
star map, which is of special importance to Egyptology, ancient
history and astronomy. This has a great influence concerning studies
of chronology and the related culture and the science on Egypt's 18th
dynasty and Ancient Near East as well. |
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The presented new-orientating information concerns
the hitherto 'hidden' data now being revealed by a thorough
examination of the most unique Egyptian celestial depiction - the
world's oldest star map. It is decorating a ceiling in
Senmut (Senenmut), the vizier's
3500-year-old tomb at Thebes (Luxor).
For the first time, the
star map has been decoded, thoroughly, for its content of precise
dating-information.
These results have been
published by Ove von Spaeth in his treatise on "Dating the Oldest Egyptian
Star Map", 2000 (cf. below).
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Summary, Analysis, and Discussion
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A summary
(and a press release) of the actual scientific publication of
these new data and their analysis
- together with the
subsequent discussions of the results (cf. the
FAQ-section) - are here, and on the
next pages, presented at your disposal as information, material for
inter-disciplinary purposes, libraries, data bases, and otherwise.
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Accessibility - and the
Chronology
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The said treatise was published in July-August
2000 in Centaurus International Magazine
of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology,
Vol. 42;3, 2000, pp.159-179.
Centaurus Magazine is published by Blackwell-Munksgaard
International Publishers, Global. Besides the scientific libraries,
the treatise can be retrieved (as No ISSN 0008-8984) by the normal
public databases of scientific articles.
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Survey of the sky in May 1534
BC (Gregorian calendar style, and please notice: the years are listed as
according to traditional, normal procedure for historians, i.e. without the
"0 year") - when the planets were grouping around Sirius. (Questions
regarding the accuracy of the calculations? - please study
FAQ: Dating the
Oldest Egyptian Star Map).
The planets are here
depicted on a straight line, although in reality they are placed at various
latitudes. However, it does not influence the exactitude of the analysis
which defines the celestial location of the major conjunction found in the
Senmut star map as pointing at or identifying precisely the calculated date:
May 1534 BC.
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"...
Regarding Ove von Spaeth's momentous, new-orientating treatise on
"Dating the Oldest Egyptian Star Map", which was published in "Centaurus
International Magazine on The History of Mathematics, Science, and
Technology" (2000, Vol. 42:3, pp. 159-179): - a scientific pioneering work which
has gained sustained admiration and respect internationally for its
non-traditional observations and for finding solutions to difficult problems
of key importance to ancient Egyptian astronomy and the chronological
perspectives. In addition, the actual findings have furthered research on
rendering more accurate the dating of Moses' historical period …"
- Hans Baron Anckarstjerna, Historian,
Editor-in-Chief, -
Swedano Journal, &: EuropeHistory
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Apart from the analysis
of the Ancient Egyptian star map some more perspectives of interest have
appeared.
In the research -
totally separated from other purposes - on the dating of the star map,
executed by Ove von Spaeth, the results as published in the "Centaurus
International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and
Technology" contain further valuable information and aspects. The exact
astronomical dating of the Senmut star map presents the improvements of the
chronology (most needed) of not least its conneting 18th dynasty as a very
important period of ancient history.
The fixation of the date
of the specific arrangement of the celestial bodies on the map has also
contributed to the new-orientating research on the historical Moses by Ove
von Spaeth (more information, cf.: "On
History" and "Brief view").
Concerning the
Centaurus-publisher's part of copyright to publish the treatise in question,
this limitation has most kindly been excluded for the benefit of, in other
connections, presenting the text (the originally separated analysis) as an
addendum to the author's ancient history Moses-research.
With this admission to
its content the treatise was also published as an appendix to the
Volume 2 of Ove
von Spaeth's
book-series on Moses and his era.
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