José Lull and Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés, 'Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective'

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  • Bernadette Brady University of Wales Trinity Saint David

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https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.31884

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book review, Astronomy of Ancient Egypt, José Lull, Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés

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José Lull and Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés
Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective
Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023. Hardback, 588 pp. Illustrated. ISBN 978-3-031-11828-9. £129.99.

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Griffiths, J. G., 1976. “Osiris and the Moon in Iconography”. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 62 (1): 153–159. https://doi.org/10.1177/030751337606200118

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O’Connor, D. B., 2009. Abydos: Egypt’s First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris. London: Thames & Hudson.

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Von Lieven, A., 2010. “Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars”. In Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece, edited by A. Imhausen and T. Pommerening, 139–152. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 286. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229936.2.139

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2024-11-13

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Brady, B. (2024). José Lull and Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés, ’Astronomy of Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Perspective’. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 10(1), 155-164. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.31884