Archaeoastronomy

Welcome to Rita's archaeoastronomy world!

Papers:

Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BC to 1000 AD
  • R. Gautschy, Sonnenfinsternisse und ihre chronologische Bedeutung: Ein neuer Sonnenfinsterniskanon für Altertumswissenschaftler, Klio 94, Vol. 1, 2012, 7-17.
The online solar eclipse canon be accessed here: Lunar and Sothic data
  • R. Gautschy, Lunar and Sothic data from the archive of el-Lahun revisited: Chronology of the Middle Kingdom, Current Research in Egyptology XI, 2011, 53-61
  • R. Gautschy, Der Stern Sirius im Alten Ägypten, ZÄS 178, Vol. 2, 2011, 116-131
  • R. Gautschy, Die Monddaten aus dem Archiv von Illahun: Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches, ZÄS 178, Vol. 1, 2011, 1-19
  • R. Gautschy, Lunar Observations and Their Usefulness for Chronology, in: E. M. Corsini (ed.), The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI, ASP Conference Series Volume 441, 2011, 503-507
A short summary and the downloadable data published in these papers you can find here:

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