[SunkenCiv]

Al-Ahram Weekly

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BTTT

[pepsi_junkie]

The Temple of Esna dates back to the Roman period.

By Egyptian standards, that's like taking a New York City phone book where every page represents 5 years and opening up to the very last page. Sometimes it's hard to imagine what wonders have been lost from the years represented by all those other pages. One hopes we never stop finding them.

[alexander_busek]

The relief contains all the twelve Zodiac signs [...]

If I recall correctly, archeologists had (a few years back) come to the conclusion that the Babylonians had originally had THIRTEEN zodiacal signs.

In addition to the twelve well-known zodiacal signs, they had also recognized the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Snake-Bearer) as a zodiacal sign.

Of course, this would require shortening the remaining 12 periods.

I noted it especially because my astrological sign would then have shifted from Sagittarius to Ophiuchus.

Regards,

[Delta 21]

How do you uncover a thing that is directly above you meant to be viewed from below?

[Red Badger]