Cairo Calendar - Discovery of ancient Egyptians

23. 11. 2018
6th international conference of exopolitics, history and spirituality

Ancient Egyptian papyrus - the so-called Cairo calendar, is perhaps one of the most fascinating proofs of how advanced the Egyptians were in astronomy. This papyrus, also known as Calendar of happy and unhappy days, which dates from 1244 - 1163 BC, assigns predictions to every day of the Egyptian year. These predictions indicate whether he considers this day or part of the day to be 'good' or 'bad'.

Cairo calendar

Papyrus also contains information about astronomical observations, such as the behavior of astronomical objects, especially stars Algol in the constellation of Perseus, also known as star of the demon. Algol is a bright multiple star in the Perseon constellation and one of the first variable stars to be discovered.

In this video you will find a show of several stars and constellations:

Merging between myth and science

Now scientists believe astronomical symbolism discovered in the two oldest myths of Egypt suggests that similar traces can be found in other ancient Egyptian texts.

The aim of this article is to show how ancient Egyptian calendars (not just the Cairo calendar) were used to describe the behavior of astronomical objects, especially the Algol star system. However, almost nothing is known about who observed the Algol periods in Cairo's calendar, nor about how this was accomplished thousands of years ago.

The authors show how old Egyptian scribes represent heavenly phenomena as the activity of the gods, which reveals why Algol was named Horus. The article offers ten arguments to prove that ancient Egyptian scribes, known as "time observers", had the means and possible motives to write Algol periods in the Cairo calendar.

The discovery of the phases of Algol was thus dated thousands of years before it was known to contemporary astronomers.

One of the authors of the study explains:

"The star was part of ancient Egyptian mythology as the residence of the god Horus."

Who knows English, here is a video where the Algol star is devoted to:

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