elhieroglyph: Egyptian ZodiacFrench scientists and artists...

elhieroglyph:


Egyptian Zodiac
French scientists and artists...:

elhieroglyph:

Egyptian Zodiac

French scientists and artists accompanying Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 produced Description de l’Égypte, a twenty-two volume publication that essentially established the modern science of Egyptology. Here is an engraving of an ancient Egyptian diagram of the heavens from the Temple of Dendara, depicting the sky on the date of the founding of the temple in 54 B.C. The falcon-headed gods symbolize eternity and the goddesses relate to the four directions.