Ancient Egyptian Astronomy

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Ancient Egyptian Astronomy

This site is a repository of information about astronomical documents from the pharaonic period of ancient Egypt. In particular, the site aims to provide an up-to-date, accessible, and scholarly commentary to the astronomical texts and tables previously described in Neugebauer and Parker's three-volume work Egyptian Astronomical Texts published in the 1960s. The site currently only contains data on diagonal star tables, corresponding to the first volume.

In order to view all the information on this site, you will need to have a transliteration font installed. You can download the font here.
To familiarize yourself with the conventions used on this site, you can see a list of conventions here.

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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

AWOL is syndicated to Facebook and Twitter.

AWOL - The Ancient World Online

Thursday, February 6, 2014