Author
Karine Gadré,
Culture Diff' company-header and founder,
Doctor of Astronomy, University of Toulouse, France,
Member of the Astronomers for Planet Earth Collective,
Member of the Science(s) en Occitanie network.
Introduction
« The Culture Diff' company was founded in the year 2000 with the aim of disseminating scientific culture and promoting the results of fundamental research - in the field of Egyptian archaeoastronomy, in particular. At that time indeed, I was preparing a doctoral thesis on this subject at the interface between the exact sciences and the humanities at the University of Toulouse, France. The aim was to identify, to the stars that dot our skies, those whose hieroglyphic names adorn the sides of sarcophagi and the ceilings of ancient Egyptian temples and tombs - in other words, to reconstruct the sky map of ancient Egypt. A professional project that has become the common thread running through an entire life devoted, on the one hand, to capturing light coming from the Universe using appropriate devices and, on the other hand, to recreating, using dedicated algorithms, the light that bathes every parcel of our Earth. This light that sets our atmosphere in motion, outlines the surrounding landscape, brings life, guides our steps, directs our gaze, fills our minds and nourishes our imagination. »
PhD thesis
Fourteen years! That's how long it took to transform a simple idea - studying and then reconstituting the ancient Egyptian sky, using contemporary tools - into the subject of a thesis, the examination of the manuscript and the defence of which brought together renowned Egyptologists and Astronomers for the very first time. That was on May 21, 2008. On that very day, Toulouse became the world capital of interdisciplinarity. Read more ...
This initiative was recognized with a Prize from the Toulouse Academy of Sciences, Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.
