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2 unusual facts about Dendera zodiac


Dendera

It was once home to the celebrated zodiac which is now displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Dendera zodiac

Sylvie Cauville of the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research at Utrecht University and Éric Aubourg dated it to 50 BC through an examination of the configuration it shows of the five planets known to the Egyptians, a configuration that occurs once every thousand years, and the identification of two eclipses.



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