Registration

Opening Session

 1. Words of Conveners (9:30 - 9:45)

Mosalam Shaltout, Juan Antonio Belmonte and Hoda Elmikaty
 

2. Opening Lecture

Lighting the Temples: A Story of Discovery on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy)

Juan Antonio Belmonte, Mosalam Shaltout, Magdi Fekri and Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi (45 minutes)

Astronomical Interpretation of the Winding Canal in the Pyramid Texts

Speaker: Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi and Maha Yehia

 The Architectonic Encoding of the Minor Lunar Standstills in the Causeway of the Second Giza Pyramid

The Transmission of Heavenly Conceptions and Astronomical Images from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom to the 18^th Dynasty

Ancient Egyptian Sky-Knowledge

The Orientation of the Great Temple of Abu Simbel (Seasonally, Astronomically or Topographically)

Speakers: M. A. M. Shaltout and Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi

Astronomical vs. Dynastic Alignments in the Pyramids' Fields of the Old Kingdom

Speaker: Giulio Magli

Concerning the Impossibility of a Date for Building the Pyramid of Khufu

Nabil Swelim

Session 2: Astronomy in Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Greco-Roman Era in Egypt

Chairman: Juan Antonio Belmonte
Invited Lecture: (The Egyptian Revolution in Astronomy) (40 minutes)

Speaker: Nicholas Campion

Catherine of Alexandria and the Art of Astronomy

Speaker: Anne Chapman-Rietschi

The Signification of the Zodiac in Ancient Egypt

Speaker: Magdi M. Fekri

Astronomy in Alexandria Bibliotheca during the Ptolemaic Era

Speakers: Maha Kabil and M. A. M. Shaltout 

Climate Change in the Nile Delta from Prehistoric to the Modern Era and their Impact on Soil and Vegetation in some Archaeological Sites

Speakers: M. A. M. Shaltout and M. F. Azzazi

Palaeobotanical Study on Soil Strata of Lake Qarun Shore Since Graeco-Roman Period

Speakers: M. A. M. Shaltout and M. F. Azzazi

Session 3: Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in Europe

Chairman: Ivan Šprajc 

(“The Second Star to the Right” – A New Kind of Tourist Guide to Discover Sky Representations in Padua) (40 minutes)

Speakers: Caterina Boccato and Chiara Di Benedetto

 ARCHAEOASTRONOMIC STUDY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA’S IRON AGE: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN URNFIELD AND CELTIBERIAN NECROPOLIS

by Javier Mejuto & César Rodríguez
 

 The Sactuary of the Celtiberian Town of Segeda and its Astronomical Orientations

Speaker: Francisco Burillo Mozota

 Astronomy in Culture in Celtiberian Iconography

Speakers: Francisco Burillo Mozota and Mª. P. Burillo-Cuadrado

 Astronomical Orientations of Vernacular Architectonic Structures in Salento (south-eastern Italy)

Speaker: George Dimitriadis

 Session 3: Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in Europe

Part II

Chairman: Amanda-Alice Maravelia

 (Buildings Towards the Sky: is the Zawiya Nasiriyya in Safi a Case of Giant Instrument?) (40 minutes)

 Speakers: Roser Puig and Mònica Rius

 Avebury Archaeoastronomy and Digital Reconstruction of the West Kennet Avenue

Speaker: John Macdonald

 New "Sphynx" and Megalits on Altai

Speaker: Leonid Marsadolov

 Thracian Sanctuaries Re-Visited

Speakers: A. C. González-García, D. Kolev, V.Koleva, L. Tsonev, and J.A. Belmonte

Cultural Heritage and Architecture of Baroque Observatories

Speker: Gudrun Wolfschmidt

Visit to New Alexandria Library and Planetarium

Chair: Omar Fikry (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt)

 Session 4: Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in Asia, Africa and America

Part I

Chairman: Xenophon Moussas

 (Lunar Cycles Among the Classic Maya – from Lunar Symbolism to the Lunar Series) (40 minutes)

Speaker: Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Mudumal : An Ancient Astronomical  Observatory from South India

Speaker: K. P. Rao

The Aspects of the Brazilian Archaeoastronomical Culture

Speaker: Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão

Astronomy in the Age of Dragons

Speaker: David W. Pankenier

New Archaeo-astronomical Research in Arkaim

Speaker: Olga Polyakova

Some Ethnographical Aspects in The Study of the Tunguska Phenomenon: Its Reflection in the World View of the Evenks of Siberia

Speaker: Nataliya Dmitrieva

Session 5: Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in Asia, Africa and America

Part II

Chairman: Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

(Astronomical Alignments in Prehispanic Architecture of Central Mexico: A Statistical Assessment) (40 minutes)

Speakers: Ivan Šprajc and David Valls-Gabaud

Secret of the Nakhshab Moon

Speaker: Abasali Rustamov

Laying the Basics for Cultural Astronomy Education in Museum School Collaboration: A Nigerian

Speaker: Barth Chukwuezi

Traditional Rites and Their Celestial Alignments in Parts of South-Eastern Nigeria

Speakers: J. O. Urama,  P.  Eze-Uzomaka, F. Chami, J. K. Obatala and C. Opata

Session 6: Astronomy in Arabic – Islamic Civilization and Medieval Europe
 
Part I

Chairman: Farid Ghassemlou

 (The Contribution of Al-Sūfī in the Study of the Astrolabe) (40 minutes) 

Speaker: Flora Vafea

Risings and Settings of Stars: The Case of Hesiod Calendar and the Star Spica

Speaker: Elio Antonello

 Astronomical Orientation of “Megaron II” House on the Gradac (Hill Fort) of Vučedol

Speaker: Tomislav Bilić

The “Petre de la Mola” Megalithic Complex on the Monte Croccia (Basilicata)

Speakers: E. Curti, M. Mucciarelli, V. F. Polcaro, C. Prascina and N. Witte

Session 6: Astronomy in Arabic – Islamic Civilization and Medieval Europe

Part II

Chairman: Anne-Sophie von Bomhard

 (A Survey of Available Astronomical Manuscripts in Iran) (40 minutes)

Speaker: Farid Ghassemlou

The Multivalency of Ancient Arabian Seasonal Asterisms and Megaconstellations

Speaker: W. Ben Adams

Auroras in Arabian Peninsula

Speaker: Hassan M. Basurah

The Crab Astrolabe by Muhammad ibn Nasr - The treatise on the Crab Astrolabe (al-asturolabe al-musartan al-mujanah)

Speaker: Osama Fathi 

Session 7: Astronomy and Astronomical Machine in Mediterranean

Chairman: Magdi Fekri
 (The Antikythera Mechanism, the First Mechanical Universe),

Speaker: Xenophon Moussas (40 minutes)
(Minoan Civilisation) (40 minutes)

Speaker: Mary Blomberg

The Astronomical Horologium of Gaza

Speaker: François René QUERCI 

Ten Solar Eclipses Show that the Antikythera Mechanism was Constructed for Use on Sicily

Speaker: Göran Henriksson

Archaeoastronomical Analysis of Site E-92-9 from Nabta Playa: a Reassesment

Speaker: Stanislaw Iwaniszewski 

Decoding the Base of the Pharaohnic Civilization through the “Pythagorean” Tetraktys and the Minoan Labyrinth

Speaker: Panagiotes D. Gregoriades

Session 8: Astronomy in Cultures

Part I

Chairman: Omar Fikry

The Printed Universe and Exhibition of Prints

Speaker: Marea Atkinson

The Shape of the Universe Based on Parallels between Physics and the Quran

Speaker: Amal Farhat

IYA2009USA: Cultural Astronomy and Storytelling

Speaker: J. C. Holbrook

Modelling Comet Lore

Speaker: Mare Koiva

The Role of Arab Astronomical Societies in Developing Astronomy in the Arab World "The Jordanian Astronomical Society as a Model"

Speaker: Khalil Konsul

Session 8: Astronomy in Cultures

Part II

Chairman: Yasser Abdel-Hadi

(Cosmic Players: Simulating, Understanding and Communicating Astronomical Phenomena and Processes by Games) (40 Minutes)

Speaker: Michael Rappenglueck

The Fall of Phaethon: A Possible Geomyth Reflecting a Meteorite Impact Event in Bavaria (Southeast Germany) During the Celtic Period

Speaker: Barbara Rappenglueck

Sun on the Horns of a Deer: the Cosmological Aspects of Petroglyphs of the Scythian Altai

Speaker: Bekbassar, Nyssanbay

The Harmony of Heaven and Earth: Astronomy and Music in Early China

Speaker: Williamson, Alice

West Kennet Avenue – Avenue of Gender/Avenue of Power: Overcoming the Individualistic Fallacy through Simulating Populations by Considering Monument Designs and Landscape Phenomenology as Coupled Systems

Speaker: Lionel Sims

From Time Dilation Proportionality to The Origin of the Universe and of Time

Speaker: Abed Peerally

Session 8: Astronomy in Cultures
 
Part III

Chairman: Michael Rappenglueck

Cosmic Cities and Temples of India

Speakers: J. McKim Malville and Rana Singh

Early Medieval Planetary Astronomy

Speakers: Sonja Draxler and Max E. Lippitsch

Early Greek Astrophysics

Xenophon Moussas

Astronomical Knowledge in Sacred Medieval Italian Architecture

Speaker: Manuela Incerti

Fragile Light: Inspiration in Retrospect

Speaker: David Madacsi

Native Brazilian Astronomy

Speaker: Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão

Session 8: Astronomy in Cultures

Part IV

Chairman: J. McKim Malville

Orientations of the Giant’s Churches in Ostrobothnia, Finland

Speakers: Marianna Ridderstad and Jari Okkonen

DEVELOPING AN EASY GRAPHICS SOFTWARE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Gracia Rodríguez-Caderot, Esther Pascual, Marta Folgueira, Mª Luisa Cerdeño, Javier Mejuto, César Rodríguez

Naked Eye Estimate of Morning Prayer at Tubruq of Libya

I. A. Issa, A. H. Hassan, Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi and U. A. Rahoma

Verification of Al-Eshaa and Al-Fajr Prayer Times at Matrouh of Egypt

I. A. Issa, N. Y. Hassanin, A. H. Hassan and Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi

Chagga Calender, Sacred and Ceremonial Mountain; Archaeo- Astronomical Observation from Kilimanjaro-Tanzania

Speaker: Valerian Valence

Constellations of Inkas

Speakers: Milton and Gabriela Rojas Gamara

Session 9: Astronomy in Prehistory

Part I

Chairman:  Giulio Magli

(Astronomy and Culture at Nabta Playa) (40 minutes)

Speaker: J. McKim Malville 
 
(The Solar Activity, the Nile Flooding and the Ancient Egyptian Civilization from the Prehistoric down to the Helleno-Roman Era) (40 minutes)

 Speakers: M. A. M. Shaltout and Amanda–Alice Maravelia

The Sun and the Moon in the Megalithic Period

Speaker: C. Marciano da Silva

Session 9: Astronomy in Prehistory

Part II

Chairman:  Khaled Saad

(Astronomy and Calendars in the Prehistory in the Western Desert in Holocene) (40 minutes)

Speaker: Khaled Saad

The First Star: An Archaeological and Astronomical Study on the 4^th Millennium Ghassulian “Star and Notables” Paintings in Jordan

Speakers: A. Polcaro and V. F. Polcaro

Prehistoric Europe and Astronomy

Speaker: Emília Pásztor

 Early Bronze Age Geometry in the Dead Sea Region at Tell Arad and     Babedh-Dhra’: Numerical Squaring, Harmonic Compositions and Length-Units

Speaker: Marcello Ranieri

Closing Session

 Chairman: Mosalam Shaltout

Closing Lecture : Ismail Serag El-Din, Director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina,

History of Science in Egypt from A to Z (45 minutes).

Convener Words and Recommendations