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240 8 The Dates Shown on the Zodiacs form Ancient Egyptian Tombs and Sarcophagi
Figure 8.14: Fragment of the mural inside the inner chamber of the Petosiris tomb.
On the other hand, the probability of having close dates for
two independent zodiacs is very small (see section 6.5). Therefore,
if the Petosiris zodiacs were only based on the fantasy
of their creators without any connection to the real astronomical
events, exactly like it is suggested by the authors of
[5], it would be very unlikely to expect any pair of solutions
belonging to the historical time interval. Our computations
show that such pairs of solutions indeed exist. Therefore, the
astronomical meaning of the Petosiris zodiacs can be decoded
and their dates revealed.
8.4.1 Story of the Discovery and Analysis of
the Petosiris Zodiacs.
Based on the material in [5], let us present a short story of
the Petosiris zodiacs, how they were discovered and analyzed.
The Petosiris zodiacs were excavated in the Egyptian oasis
of Dahla — the largest oasis in the “Northern desert” of Nile.
It is located about 350 km North from Luxor (see [98], p. 95.).
The zodiacs were painted on the ceilings inside of an old crypt,
which was carved in a rocky hill-side (see Figure 8.16). It is
believed that there was buried a man with the name Petosiris
(see [5]). The tomb was composed of two chambers — one
connected to the passage leading outside the tomb, which we
call the outside room, and another one, which we call the
inside room (see Figure 8.15). The zodiacs were painted in
color and they were well preserved. Each of them contained
a horoscope (see Figures 8.16 — 8.18).
In 1973 the Petosiris zodiacs were brought into attention
of Egyptologist by the Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed
Fakhry, who showed their photographs to the prestigious experts
in the ancient Egyptian astronomy: O. Neugebauer,
R.A. Parker, and D. Pingree. He requested from them to analyze
these two zodiacs (see [5], p. 96). In 1982, these three authors
published an elaborated article devoted to the Petosiris
zodiacs (see [5]). The article contained a detailed descriptions
and many photographs of the zodiacs. Let us state it clearly
that O. Neugebauer, R.A. Parker, and D. Pingree presented in
[5] a complete decoding of these zodiacs, including the identification
of all the planets on each of them. As it was confirmed
by our analysis (see below), their decoding was correct.
The unique identification of all the planetary symbols on
these zodiacs can be done in a routine way without any problem.
As a consequence, O. Neugebauer, R.A. Parker, and D.
Pingree were clearly in a position to complete the proper astronomical
dating of the Petosiris zodiacs. For this purpose, it
would suffice to identify the planetary locations and to make
the appropriate astronomical computations. By using special
programs for astronomical computations, or even, with a help
of professional astronomers, these tasks could be easily accomplished.
Unfortunately, O. Neugebauer, R.A. Parker, and
D. Pingree were not interested in carrying out any attempt