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Shifting Milestones of Natural Sciences: The Ancient Egyptian Discovery of Algol’s Period Confirmed

The Ancient Egyptians wrote Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days that assigned astronomically influenced prognoses for each day of the year. The best preserved of these calendars is the Cairo Calendar (hereafter CC) dated to 1244–1163 B.C. We have presented evidence that the 2.85 days period in the l...

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Autores principales: Jetsu, Lauri, Porceddu, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144140