Egyptology - The Dendera zodiac: an ancient celestial map in stone
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The Dendera zodiac is a celebrated Egyptian bas-relief carved for the ceiling of an Osiris chapel within the Hathor temple at Dendera. Showing figures of Taurus and Libra, it was characterized by John H. Rogers as the only complete map surviving of an ancient sky. While many nineteenth-century observers believed the relief dated to the New Kingdom, Jean-Francois Champollion recognized it as Greco-Roman because its portico was added under Emperor Tiberius. The relief is now on display at the Louvre.
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