On December the 9th, 2005, the Culture Diff' company and Les Chemins Buissonniers gave an art and science show focusing on Egyptian Archaeoastronomy. The scientific content of this show was taken from the 2006 calendar entitled "From Atum to Hubble: trip into the cosmos between past and present." Here follow the details of the show and the content of the 2006 calendar.

Partners : Culture Diff', Les Chemins Buissonniers, MJC de Rieumes et du Savès
Time and Place : 9th décember 2005, Rieumes (31)

Behind the words are hidden a meaning ... and sounds. The sounds are the resonance of words. When listening to Claude Nougaro, it even seems that poetry is made of sounds that make sense. In this poetic evening, the voice of the viola da gamba (Nathalie Estevenin) and song (Luc Baron) will join those of science (Karine Gadré) for you to share the emotion associated with the rediscovery of four thousand years of human history. Four thousand years of evolution of thought, through the erection of stone buildings, the drafting of hieroglyphic texts ... As many remains whose astronomical orientation or content is detailed within the 2006 calendar, produced jointly by the Culture Diff 'company and the non-profit organization Les Chemins Buissonniers.

Partners : Culture Diff', Les Chemins Buissonniers

This calendar is a collaboration between the Culture Diff' company and the non-profit organization Les Chemins Buissonniers. The goal: spreading the results of the latest research work in the field of Egyptian astronomy - in other words, giving everyone a better understanding of the astronomical orientation or content of several Egyptian remnants. Every one of the twelve months of the year 2006 was an opportunity to present one or more remnants, characteristic(s) of a given historical period.

Here is the list of the topics associated with each month of the year:

The Nabta Playa megaliths or traces of a Neolithic astronomy

The astronomical orientation of the pyramids of Egypt

The creation of the world according to the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts

The first stellar clocks (Sarcophagus of Idy, Asyut)

The heliacal rising of the star of Sirius (el-Lahun Papyrus, Ebers Calendar, ...)

The southern sky of ancient Egypt (Tomb of Senenmut at Deir el-Bahari)

The months of the Egyptian year (Karnak Water Clock)

The constellations of the northern sky (Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings)

Sunrise in the Land of Egypt (Cenotaph of Seti I in Abydos)

The decanal stars cycle (Carlsberg Papyrus I)

The astronomical orientation of the temple of Isis at Dendera

The round Dendara zodiac

Recent astronomical images, each relating to one of the themes detailed above (the sunrise, the universe, the passage of a comet, the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades, distant galaxies, ...), have been inserted into the calendar. So that the 2006 calendar is titled: "From Atum to Hubble: trip into the cosmos between past and present. " This calendar is, somehow, the synthesis of our current knowledge about the evolution of Egyptian celestial imagery over the millennia since the Predynastic Period to the Greco-Roman Era. It recounts the evolution of human thought over the past four millennia of history. It reveals the symbolism associated with sunrise in the sky of ancient Egypt, the principle of functioning of the stellar clocks and water clocks, the vision which the ancient Egyptians had about the creation of the universe ; more generally, their knowledge of the sky, of the celestial rhythms, of the successive solar and stellar cycles, of the slow changes in the appearance of the sky over the millennia. This observational astronomy is the basis of modern astronomy.