The circular Dendera Zodiac from the ceiling of the Hathor temple at Dendera, Egypt, now housed in the Louvre Museum. This Ptolemaic-era bas-relief is one
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The circular Dendera Zodiac from the ceiling of the Hathor temple at Dendera, Egypt, now housed in the Louvre Museum. This Ptolemaic-era bas-relief is one of the oldest known depictions of the zodiac and has been interpreted by some researchers as encoding knowledge of precession through the positioning of its celestial figures.
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