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to be unique on the whole historical interval from 500 B.C.
to our times:
The Long Denderah zodiac:
April 22-26, 1168 AD.
The Round Denderah zodiac:
March 13 – April 9, 1185 AD.
3.2 Two Esna Zodiacs
Esna lies 53 kilometers south of Luxor on the west bank of the
Nile river, exactly at the place where Nile begins a big semicircle
meander around a stony hills area. This was the burial
place for Pharaohs and there is also located the famous Valley
of the Kings. It is surrounded by many ancient Egyptian
temples, structures and monuments. Denderah is located on
the north side of this semicircular area, which is not so far
from Esna. Let us point out that most of the ancient Egyptian
zodiacs come from this region what may indicate their
close relationship with the Egyptian tombs (see the map of
the river Nile in Egypt on Figure 3.8).
Figure 3.8: A modern map of Egypt with the Middle Nile Valley
indicated
As we’ve already mentioned, there were discovered in Esna
two temples with zodiacs reliefs on their ceilings. Symbols on
these zodiacs are in many aspects very similar to the symbols
on the Denderah zodiacs, but there are some clear differences
as well.
3.3 Athribis Zodiacs Discovered by Flinders Petrie 59
As far as we know, the first and the only attempt to decode
and date the Esna zodiacs, using the astronomical methods,
was undertaken by T.N. Fomenko in [1]. She proposed
a decoding variant for these zodiacs and calculated the dates
based on it. Fomenko’s decoding led to the following solution,
which appears to be the only one in the whole historical time
interval:
The Big Esna zodiac: May 1–2, 1641 AD.
The Small Esna zodiac: May 2-3, 1570 AD.
(T.N. Fomenko 18 )
Our analysis of the Esna zodiacs showed that, in fact,
there are several admissible variants of decodings that should
be considered for the Esna zodiacs. The additional astronomical
information contained in these zodiacs allows to eliminate
all the incorrect solutions, which are incompatible with this
data. The details of our research related to the analysis of the
Esna zodiacs will be presented in sections 7.5 and 7.6. In this
moment, let us simply announce our final result:
The Big Esna zodiac:
March 31 – April 3, 1394 AD.
The Small Esna zodiac:
May 6–8, 1404 AD.
This solution appears to be unique on the time interval
from 500 B.C. until the present times. We should mention
that our final decoding, which led to the above solution, is
different from the one suggested by T.N. Fomenko in [1], so
the resulting final dates are also different.
3.3 Athribis Zodiacs Discovered by
Flinders Petrie
The two Athribis zodiacs which we’ve already mentioned in
section 2.1 (see Figures 2.19 and 3.9), were investigated by
N.A. Morozov 19 . He described these zodiacs and the previous
attempts of their dating as follows:
“In 1902 the British Egyptology School in London published
the work of Egyptologist W.M. Flinders Petrie under
the title “Athribis.” This book was devoted to the description
of findings made by Petrie in 1901 in Upper Egypt
near Sohag. Athribis was called in the antiquity Hat-Repit
(i.e. Repit Citadel) and is located to the south from Dekr-
Amba-Shenude (i.e. White Monastery), where remains of a
monastery cell were discovered. This cell was dated by Egyptologists
to be of the forth century A.D. To the south from
that place, near Horgaze, where the surrounding rocks like
a stairway descend to the Nile valley, there were excavated
historical remains, which were associated by the researchers
with the Old Kingdom. Earlier, in Athribis there were discov-
19 See [4], Vol. 6, pp.728-752